This BBC producion has won high praise for outstanding sets, atmospheric music and for all-round exuberance and that touch of magic. Like most BBC productions this is the definitive study version. find out more...

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her? BBC doing the full text. As only they can do. Apparently. find out more...

Shakespeare's delightful romantic comedy is given the usual high class treatment by the BBC. find out more...

Set in 19th Century Japan, but shot here with a largely Brit cast, Kenneth Branagh's much criticised adaptation of The Bard's comedy of errors. 'All the world's a stage...' find out more...

The BBC' s exhaustive and typically exemplary adaptations of some of the great bard's best known plays and also a number of his lesser known works. All filmed between the late 1970's and early 1980's and performed by pretty much the cream of British theatre. find out more...

Kenny's at it again, this time it's one of the Bard's comedy romances which gets the movie makeover, updated to the 1930's and turned into a semi-musical. King Navarre asks his three friends and fellow Oxford undergraduates to join with him in forgoing the joys of women for three years so that they can concentrate on their studies. A sensible idea it would seem and all heartily agree, but the arrival of the Princess of France and her entourage place the weak willed young bucks in a dilemma. The find out more...

Another faithful and compelling adaptation from the very watchable BBC collection. find out more...

A typically exemplary BBC adaptation of one of the great bard's best known plays performed by pretty much the cream of British theatre. find out more...

A truly magnificent adaptation of Shakespeare's tender and intriguing period comedy. A plethora of top actors, sumptuous Tuscany locations and the matchmaking that turns bickering to love between Beatrice and Benedick (Thompson and Branagh). Hey nonny nonny! find out more...

One of the BBC's typically exemplary adaptations of one of the great Bard's lesser known works performed by pretty much the cream of British theatre. find out more...