The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from
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James Earl Jones. When Cedric Messina attempted to cast Jones as Othello, Equity threatened to strike, as they wanted only British and Irish performers to appear in the shows.
The Folger Shakespeare Library was heavily involved in promoting the show in the United States.
Peter Brook was uninterested in directing an episode of the show when Jonathan Miller offered him the opportunity.
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
BBC Television Shakespeare
…episodes. Development began in 1975 when Messina saw that the grounds of Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It for the Play of the Month series. Upon returning to London, however, he had come to envision an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works…
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623
As You Like It, closing scene: the eight characters who marry with the god Hymen restoring harmony before they are commanded to dance. (Performance in Pop Up Globe, 2017)
Rosalind in the Forest, John Everett Millais, 1868, Liverpool Museums
Summer of 2015 Shakespeare in the Parking Lot production of As You Like it at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center