SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 8 - Mark Lamarr reads ‘All the world’s a stage’ from As You Like It (II vii), Meera Syal performs Sonnet 77 ‘Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear’, Simon Pegg performs ‘Drink, Sir is a great provoker of three things, nose-painting, sleep and urine’ from Macbeth (II iii), Daniela Nardini performs ‘They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able’ from Troilus and Cressida (III ii). Mark Benton performs ‘A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it’ from Henry IV. Part II (IV iii), Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason read Sonnet 17 ‘Who will believe my verse in time to come’, Lisa Riley performs ‘The quality of mercy is not strained’ from The Merchant of Venice (IV i), Mark Gatiss performs ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ from Richard III (I i), Alistair McGowan performs ‘if it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly’ from Macbeth (I vii), Tracy-Ann Oberman performs ‘he hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million’ from The Merchant of Venice(III i) and Simon Pegg performs ‘Give my thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act’ from Hamlet (I iii).

Series

From Bard to Verse

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Television

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Transmission details

11 Apr 2004 at 19:15 (Channel: BBC3)

Duration

15 mins

Credits

Cast

Alistair McGowan	Macbeth
Ashley Campbell
Daniela Nardini	Cressida
Delroy Atkinson
Fraser James	Edmund
Lisa Riley	Portia
Mark Benton	Sir John Falstaff
Mark Gatiss	Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard
Mark Lamaar	Porter
Meera Syal
Oliver Mason
Simon Pegg	Hamlet
Tracy-Ann Oberman	Shylock

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Subjects

Drama; English language and literature

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Production Company

Name

Baby Cow Productions

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

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Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 0165

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN

Name

Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service

Email

services@bufvc.ac.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7393 1514

Fax

020 7393 1555

Address

For Learning on Screen Members only
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London
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