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After the war, Shakespearean adaptations were screened much less frequently.

In 1947, George More O ' Ferrall directed and produced a made-for-TV two-part adaptation of Hamlet with John Byron as Hamlet, Sebastian Shaw as Claudius, Margaret Rawlings as Gertrude and Muriel Pavlow as Ophelia.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.