Jealous at the promotion of the Moorish general Othello, Iago plots to secure his downfall by provoking him into believing his wife Desdemona is being unfaithful.

King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his daughters basing on their protestations of love for him. But the youngest refuses to answer and finds herself banished, and the other two instead plot to take all his power from him.

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.

King Richard II sows the seeds of his own downfall when he exiles Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. The invasion followed forces the vain King to abdicate the throne, and rebellion ensues.

John Cleese stars in this adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy. The roguish Petruchio hopes to charm the temperamental Katherine, while several other suitors vie for the affections of her beautiful sister.

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

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and the company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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.

Poor doctor's daughter Helena seeks to win the hand of Bertram the son of the Countess of Rousillon, but despite her success in persuading both his mother and the King of France to agree to her plans, he is unwilling to co-operate.

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.