A British mini-series consisting of four Shakespeare plays updated to the modern day with modern sensibilities.

The series overall
* HeyItsThatGuy

MuchAdoAboutNothing
* TheAlcoholic: Don
* BelligerentSexualTension: As usual.
* BrainlessBeauty: Hero starts out this way.
* CelebrityParadox: Shakespeare exists in universe, but it is never stated as to whether the play the story is based on was written.
* DaddysGirl: Hero
* FieryRedhead: Benedick. Beatrice also has a reddish tint to her hair, she also attends the costume party as Elizabeth I, another well known FieryRedhead.
* HotScoop
* HumanInterestStory: Beatrice wants to cover one about the closure of a nursing home.
* MonsterClown: Invoked by Don's creepy party costume.
* NiceGuy: Peter the director.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The security guards.

Theatre/{{Macbeth}}
* AFatherToHisMen: Macbeth
* AssholeVictim: Duncan
* KnowledgeBroker: They're binmen, they know everything.
* ShirtlessScene: Macbeth

Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew
* BelligerentSexualTension: And ''how''.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Tim
* BerserkButton: Kate, she's like a female Don from ''Film/SexyBeast''.
* BoisterousBruiser: The first thing Petruchio does is to break open a door to his his only friend, Harry.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Petruchio gets these urges sometimes, usually at the most inappropriate moments.
* DrowningMySorrows: Harry does this after Bianca dumps him.
* GoldDigger: Petruchio wants to get to married to pay off his debts.
* HairTriggerTemper: Kate seems permanently furious.
* HotBlooded: Petruchio gets over hangovers by fighting them.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Petruchio has a title and an estate but no liquid assets.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Petruchio to Kate (surprisingly).
* MissingMom: Petruchio's mother left when he was six.
* TheNameless: Petruchio is never named as such in the entirety of the film.
* TheNapoleon: Kate gets this treatment especially coupled with her political aspirations.
* PrenupBlowup
* RomancingTheWidow: Harry
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kate and Bianca respectively.
* {{Workaholic}}: Kate's diary has a full work day but in the evening she's emptying the bin.

AMidsummerNightsDream
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Puck does this constantly.
* InterspeciesRomance: Titania and Oberon.