An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeares 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 Unions 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.