Derek Jacobi looks at Richard II and returns to a role he played 30 years ago: the story of a king who loses his crown

Joely Richardson looks into a pair of cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in disguise: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Twelfth Night

In this episode: Trevor Nunn, the legendary director who has helmed 30 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays – and aims to complete them all before he retires – takes us through the magical and mysterious world created in the playwright’s last complete work

Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare’s history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates

Filmed production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ethan Hawke takes you along as he researches the part of Shakespeare’s murderous Macbeth

Film of a stage production of Shakespeare’s play in which tragedy occurs when an old king decides to divide his kingdom between his daughters.