It was about the theater that Willam Shakespeare started

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.

The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It's a contemporary version of Shakespeare's life, played to a modern soundtrack that exposes all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.

London, 1605. William Shakespeare is about to launch a new drama in The Globe. The comic actor Yorick urges the author to grant him the lead role, although he is not very gifted for serious roles. Then it begins a curious correspondence between what happens on stage and what happens in real life.

A first year college student forms a music club in an abandoned theater, putting on a modern day version of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" to raise money for a local homeless man.

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

From London's Globe Theatre, the hallowed open-air stage where many of William Shakespeare's greatest plays were performed, comes this special that chronicles 18 months of work by the University of California at Berkeley's Shakespeare Program. Their mission: the planning, rehearsal and performance of the Bard's "Much Ado About Nothing" -- a show that would mark the first recorded Elizabethan production in the newly restored Globe.

Will Shakespeare, also known as Life of Shakespeare and William Shakespeare: His Life & Times, was a 1978 historical drama series created and written by John Mortimer. Broadcast in six parts, the series is a dramatisation of the life and times of the great poet William Shakespeare played by Tim Curry, and was co-produced by Lew Grade's ATV and RAI and distributed internationally by ITC. The two production companies had collaborated successfully before on Jesus of Nazareth the previous year.

The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a travelling theatre group.

Margaret Shakespeare is a dazzling writer - in a time and place with no room for her. Her brother, William, just wants to be an actor - and friends have just the role for him.

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.