Against the backdrop of wars in France, the English nobility quarrel. News of the English defeat at Orleans reaches the duke of Gloucester and other nobles. After the funeral of Henry V, his son, the infant Henry VI, is proclaimed king.

After the Battle of St Albans, Plantagenet and the Yorkists ride to London to claim the throne. Henry negotiates to keep the crown for his lifetime but agrees to disinherit his son Prince Edward.

At Westminster, Richard speaks about his deformity, the evil plots he has laid, and the decadence at court.

In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

Gregory Doran, artistic director of the RSC, who has been described as one of the 'great Shakespearians of his generation', delivers the 2016 Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, Gregory reflects on the impact and resonance Shakespeare still has in the contemporary world.

Olivier Award-nominee James McArdle and four-time Academy Award-nominee Saoirse Ronan star in this critically acclaimed Shakespeare production, directed by Yaël Farber.

The story of how, in 1623, two actors and friends of William Shakespeare took on the task of saving his work for posterity by collecting his plays into one book, the 'First Folio'.