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Jessie

Problems arise when a maid becomes attached to the neglected mute son in a Victorian household.

Year: 1980 Duration: 89 min Credits: Nanette Newman, Nigel Hawthorne, Jennie Linden... more

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Set during the English Civil War, Viola is parted from her twin Sebastian in a shipwreck, she poses as a manservant to Duke Orsino but comical confusion arises when the Duke uses her as a go-between to woo the beautiful Olivia.

An elderly magician, Prospero, lives on an almost deserted island with his daughter Miranda, servant Ariel and slave Caliban - but their lives change after the men who exiled Prospero are cast ashore following a tempest.

Antony and Cleopatra

After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and war.

The Comedy of Errors

Comical misunderstandings arise when two sets of twins, unaware of their other halves' existence, inadvertently end up in the same town.

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers in 14th-century Verona, their romance is doomed by the longstanding blood feud between their respective families.

Timon of Athens

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.

Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare's classic love story set against the backdrop of the seemingly endless Trojan wars.

King Cymbeline's daughter, the virtuous Imogen, marries the humble Posthumus in secret much to the disappointment of her stepmother. Posthumus is banished by the King and what follows is a tale of disguise, deceit, poison, and treachery.

BBC Television: As You Like It

Duke Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.

A prophecy leads Macbeth and his wife to murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath does not end there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.