Every Shakespeare play in pictures for the Bard's 400th anniversary

Alls well That Ends Well - Ian Charleson as Bertram, Donald Sinden as the King of France and Pippa Guard (1981)

Antony and Cleopatra - Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Peter Finchfor the Home Service (1965)

As you like it - Helena Bonham Carter in studio during the recording for As You Like It, as part of Shakespeare Day on Radio 3 (2000)

Comedy of Errors – Luciana (Jane Wenham) and Adriana (Joan Plowright) (1954)

Coriolanus – Alan Howard as Caius Martinus Coriolanus (1984)

Cymbeline - Helen Mirren as Imogen (1983)

Hamlet – Derek Jacobi (1980)

Henry IV, Part 1 : Jeremy Irons as Henry IV (2012)

Henry IV, Part 2 : Robert Hardy as Prince Hal and Tom Fleming as the dying King Henry IV (1960)

Henry V - Tom Hiddleston as Henry V (2012)

Henry VI, Part 1 - Brenda Blethyn as Joan La Pucelle (1983)

Henry VI : Part 2 (1983)

Henry VI, Part 3 - Jerome Willis as Lord Clifford, Terry Wale as Rutland (1960)

Henry VIII - Sir Laurence Olivier as Porter, Paul Scofield as the Duke of Norfolk, Robert Donat as Cranmer for the BBC Home Service (1954)

Julius Caesar - Virginia McKenna as Portia, Richard Pasco as Marcus Brutus, Keith Michell (stood in background) as Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony), Elizabeth Spriggs as Calpurnia and Charles Gray as Julius Caesar (1979)

King John - Leonard Rossiter as King John (1984)

King Lear - Sir John Gielgud as King Lear and Emma Thompson as Cordelia for Radio 3 (1994)

Love's Labours Lost - Maureen Lipman as the Princess of France and Jenny Agutter as Rosaline (1984)

Macbeth - Brenda Bruce as First Witch (1983)

Measure for Measure - Kate Nelligan as Isabella (1979)

Merchant of Venice - Warren Mitchell as Shylock (1980)

Merry Wives of Windsor - Ann Page (Elizabeth Regan) and Fenton (Peter Rendall) (1952)

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Jeremy Spenser as Puck (1950)

Much Ado About Nothing - Robert Lindsay as Benedick and Cherie Lunghi as Beatrice (1984)

Othello - Gordon Heath as Othello (1955)

Pericles - Patrick Godfrey as Helicanus, Amanda Redman as Marina, Patrick Ryecat as Lysimachus Mike Gwilym as Pericles and Juliet Stephenson as Thaisa (1984)

Richard II - Ian McKellen as Richard II (with Timothy West as Bollingbroke behind his left shoulder) (1970)

Richard III - The Duke of Richmond, played by Eric Porter, kneeling at the body of Richard III, played by Ian Holm (1964)

Romeo and Juliet - Rehearsing for the broadcast of a Hindustani verse translation of Romeo and for BBC Eastern Service: Santosh Kashyap, Hafeez Javed, Gaular Javed, Aslam Malik (producer) (1947)

The Taming of the Shrew - John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherine (1980)

The Tempest - David Dixon as Ariel and Michael Horden as Prospero with film crew on set at Television Centre (1980)

Timon of Athens - Norman Rodway as Apemantus and Jonathan Pryce as Timon (1981)

Titus Andronicus - Michael Crompton as Chiron, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron, Neil McCaul as Demetrius (1985)

Troilus and Cressida - Paterson Joseph plays Troilus, Nikki Amuka-Bird is Cressida and Derek Griffiths plays Pandarus (2005)

Twelfth Night - Sinead Cusack as Olivia and Felicity Kendal as Viola (1980)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - David Collings as Thurio (1983)

The Winters Tale - Robert Shaw as Leontes and Rosalie Crutchley as Hermione (1962)