Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~25 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 12
Original Language EN
Creator Christopher Grace

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992)

Created by Christopher Grace
⭐ 3.3 / 5 (17 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 12 Episodes 🏷️ Animation 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four young lovers, trying to resolve their passions, and six worthy workmen, trying to rehearse a play, stumble about in a dark, haunted wood, while the powerful spirits play havoc with their hearts and minds.

E2 The Tempest

Prospero, a powerful magician, lives on an island with his daughter Miranda. They are served by Caliban, a hideous monster, and Ariel, a wild, discontented spirit.

E3 Macbeth
E4 Romeo and Juliet
E5 Hamlet
E6 Twelfth Night
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