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..

Starring:

Alec McCowen, Brendan Charleson, Garard Green, Gerald James, John Warner, Michael Kitchen, Patrick Brennan, Philip Bond, Roger Allam, Stephen Thorne, Stephen Tompkinson, Suzanne Burden

Genre:

Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance