British stagings of the Bard's entire canon, performed (over six years) by a distinguished roster that included John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Kate Nelligan, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins (who had the title role in a particularly memorable production of 'Othello'). This was one of the biggest and most ambitious programming ventures of its time, what one PBS official called 'the great Anglo-American alliance of the 20th century.'