BBC To Film All Shakespeare Plays

The BBC are planning to film all 37 of Shakespeare’s works over the next 12 years reports today’s Telegraph.

It’s understood that the corporation has enlisted Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes and his Neal Street company to produce the films. Mendes is said to be directing a number of the works himself with the rest being entrusted to other high calibre directors.

The paper quotes a BBC spokeswoman as saying: ‘We are at an early stage at the moment, but we are planning to do the complete of works of Shakespeare with Sam Mendes and his Neal Street production company.’