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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

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.

2 seasons1992

Animation

English

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Storyline

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.

# Animation

Info

Type
TV series
Status
Ended
First aired
9 November 1992
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes

Production

Created by
Christopher Grace
Networks
BBC Two
Countries
United Kingdom

Languages

Original
English
Spoken
English
Streams in
3 countries

Ids

TMDB
47361

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