BBC Television Shakespeare
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 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985, the series spanned seven seasons and thirty-seven episodes.
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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. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility.
First page of As You Like It from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623
Marie Davey as Rosalind in As You Like It 2017
Poster for the Federal Theatre Project production of As You Like It at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago
All the World's a Stage William Mulready (1838)
