Derek Jacobi is King Richard II in the second of the BBC's new productions of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's classic comedy occasionally veers into more troublesome territory, as the characters face dark and ambiguous moral choices.

Shakespeare's great political thriller tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators.

Classic tragedy by William Shakespeare about how ambition can corrupt. Three witches foresee a great future for Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis.

Classic comedy by William Shakespeare about the travails of lovers Rosalind and Orlando, who become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.

Classic play by William Shakespeare starring John Stride, Timothy West, Ronald Pickup, and Claire Bloom.

Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire play the star crossed lovers in one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays.

Televisation of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, featuring the opportunistic miscreant, Sir John Falstaff. Second play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part II, and Henry V.

Classic play by William Shakespeare, starring Jon Finch and Anthony Quayle. This is the third play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry V.

Classic play by William Shakespeare about Henry V, the monarch he admired above all others. Part of a tetralogy of history plays by Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II.

BBC televisation of the classic comedy of mistaken identities by William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare's swansong play about the nature of revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.

Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder and revenge, set in Elsinore Castle in Denmark.

Classic comedy by William Shakespeare. Petruchio is determined to mold the shrewish Katharina into a suitable wife, both for her dowry and for the challenge of overcoming her fearsome reputation.

BBC televisation of William Shakespeare's classic comedy about prejudice, love, loss and gain.

Shakespearean comedy. A woman goes to extraordinary lengths to win the man she loves. Helena, a ward of the Countess, has set her sights on Bertram, the Countess's son.

Classic play by William Shakespeare, considered either a comedy or a romance. One of Shakespeare's last works, the play also contains tragic elements that weave throughout the work.

When wealthy and famously generous nobleman Timon of Athens discovers the true state of his financial position, his former friends abandon him, and in disgust he retreats to a cave to rail against humanity.

Shakespeare's classic story of Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is madly in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

Tragedy by William Shakespeare. The promotion of Moorish general Othello sparks bitter jealousy in his supposed friend, Iago. He subsequently plots to secure the downfall of Othello by provoking him into believing his wife Desdemona is being unfaithful.

A love story set against the backdrop of the seemingly endless Trojan wars. Anton Lesser and Suzanne Burden take the title roles of William Shakespeare's war satire.

Part one of Shakespeare's classic play starring Helen Mirren and Robert Lindsay.

Classic play by William Shakespeare about an ageing King who decides to divide his Kingdom between his three daughters.

Comedy by William Shakespeare; the only one of his plays set in England in his own time. The roguish Sir John Falstaff attempts to seduce both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, but finds both women are more than a match for him.

A television presentation of the first part of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Henry V is dead and war continues with France. The Wars of the Roses are threatening and the Duke of York taunts the Earl of Somerset.