Shakespeare: The Animated Tales(1992)

series - first aired/released 1992-11-09 - audience 6.5

Animation

Directed by Aida Zyablikova, Alexey Karaev, Maria Muat, Natalya Orlova, Nikolay Serebryakov, Robert Sahakyants, Stanislav Sokolov, Yefim Gamburg, Yuri Kulakov

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.