“There’s small choice in rotten apples.” Morgan Freeman explores the “battle-of-the-sexes” in one of Shakespeare’s first plays.

“Tis within ourselves that we are thus or thus.” David Harewood analyzes the great villan Iago and how he manipulates Othello.

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.” Kim Cattrall travels to Rome to find out more about the historical Cleopatra.

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Joseph Fiennes examines why Romeo & Juliet is the most-performed of all Shakespeare plays.

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” Ethan Hawke takes you along as he researches the part of Shakespeare’s murderous Macbeth.

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Joely Richardson looks into a pair of cross-dressing comedies: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Twelfth Night.

“You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those.” Derek Jacobi looks at Richard II and returns to a role he played 30 years ago: the story of a king who loses his crown.

“He will give the devil his due.” Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare’s history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates.