The Shakespeare Collection

All the plays of William Shakespeare filmed for the BBC from 1978 to 1985.

The cast includes Anthony Hopkins as Othello, Bob Hoskins as Iago, Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as Claudius, Helen Mirren as Rosalind, Nicol Williamson as Macbeth and Ron Cook as Richard III.

The plays are: 'All's Well That Ends Well' (1981), 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1980), 'As You Like It' (1978), 'The Comedy of Errors' (1983), 'Coriolanus' (1983), 'Cymbeline' (1982), 'Hamlet' (1980), 'Henry IV, Part I' (1979), 'Henry IV, Part II' (1979), 'Henry V' (1979), 'Henry VI, Part I' (1981), 'Henry VI, Part II' (1981), 'Henry VI, Part III' (1982), 'Henry VIII' (1979), 'Julius Caesar' (1979), 'King Lear' (1982), 'The Life and Death of King John' (1984), 'Love's Labour's Lost' (1984), 'Macbeth' (1982), 'Measure for Measure' (1978), 'The Merchant of Venice' (1980), 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1982), 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1981), 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1984), 'Othello' (1981), 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' (1983), 'Richard II' (1978), 'Richard III' (1982), 'Romeo and Juliet' (1978), 'The Taming of the Shrew' (1980), 'The Tempest' (1979), 'Timon of Athens' (1981), 'Titus Andronicus' (1985), 'Troilus and Cressida' (1981), 'Twelfth Night' (1979), 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' (1983) and 'The Winter's Tale' (1980).