BBC Television Shakespeare Dionyza as an early version of Alexis Colby, Joan Collins' character in "Dynasty". The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" was presented by Amanda Redman who portrayed Marina in the BBC adaptation. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by poet and journalist P.J. Kavanagh. Cast The inaugural episode of the entire series was originally set to be a production of "Much Ado About Nothing", directed by Donald McWhinnie, and starring Penelope Keith and Michael York. The episode was shot (for £250,000), edited and even publicly announced as the opening of the series, before it was suddenly
Much Ado About Nothing and proneness to sexual lightness". In the patriarchal society of the play, the men's loyalties were governed by conventional codes of honour and camaraderie and a sense of superiority to women. Assumptions that women are by nature prone to inconstancy are shown in the repeated jokes on cuckoldry and partly explain Claudio's readiness to believe the slur against Hero. This stereotype is turned on its head in Balthazar's song "Sigh No More," which presents men as the deceitful and inconstant sex that women must suffer. A theme in Shakespeare is cuckoldry or the infidelity of a wife. Several of the