Filmed on location in Stratford-on-Avon, celebrated Shakespearean actor Alan Howard presents some of the Bard's best known works.

Includes:

"All the world's a stage"

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,"

"Hark, hark! the lark"

"O, for a Muse of fire"

St. Crispin's Day Speech

"Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day"

Queen Mab Speech

"What mean you, Caesar? Think you for walk forth?"

"Fear no more the heat o' th' sun"

"Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs"

"Now, at the latest minute of the hour"

Sonnet CXVI ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

Sonnet XXX ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

Sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")