The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 3

First aired: 10/23/1980 6 episodes

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Episodes

1. The Taming of the Shrew

Aired: 10/23/1980

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.

2. The Merchant of Venice

Aired: 12/17/1980

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

3. All's Well That Ends Well

Aired: 1/4/1981

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.

4. The Winter's Tale

Aired: 2/8/1981

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.

5. Timon of Athens

Aired: 4/16/1981

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.

6. Antony and Cleopatra

Aired: 5/8/1981

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