One part of a highly acclaimed series of abridged Shakespearean tales, which can be used either as an introduction to the bard's work, or (due to the skilful animation) can provide a fascinating alternative interpretation. For those that don't remember; Twelfth Night, Malvolio is the malevolent in the fancy trousers, and the eligible Olivia is in love with Viola (a girl dressed as a boy) who is in love with a man who thinks she's a man. As You Like It revolves around the relationship between per find out more...

Richard III is dominated by Richard the hunchback Duke of Gloucester, who becomes Richard III through a series of horrible acts, killing off his enemies, his kinsmen, his wife and most of his supporters before reaching the Battle of Bosworth and crying out "My kingdom for a horse." Julius Caesar is a dramatization of actual events, Shakespeare drawing upon the ancient Roman historian Plutarch's Lives of Caesar, Brutus, and Mark Antony. It establishes the dramatic problem of alarm at Julius Caesa find out more...

One part of a highly acclaimed series of abridged Shakespearean tales, which can be used either as an introduction to the bard's work, or (due to the skilful animation) can provide a fascinating alternative interpretation. Macbeth is one the darker plays, full of madness, witchcraft and murder. Romeo and Juliet is the archetypal tale of pride, revenge and a doomed, star-crossed love. Hamlet... well that should do it really, but just in case; spoilt, slightly unhinged lad, starved of real parenta find out more...

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