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Season 1, Episode 17: Timon of Athens
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Ancient Athenian Timon is well-known for his generosity - his many friends come to all his parties and like to get presents from him. But then Timon suffers losses and finds himself in debt, and his friends melt away. He loses faith in humanity and becomes a hermit.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Romeo & Juliet
Episode 2
King Richard the Second
Episode 3
As You Like It
Episode 4
Julius Caesar
Episode 5
Measure for Measure
Episode 6
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight
Episode 7
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
Episode 8
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
Episode 9
The Life of Henry the Fifth
Episode 10
Twelfth Night
Episode 11
The Tempest
Episode 12
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Episode 13
The Taming of the Shrew
Episode 14
The Merchant of Venice
Episode 15
All's Well That Ends Well
Episode 16
The Winter's Tale
Episode 17
Timon of Athens
Episode 18
Antony and Cleopatra
Episode 19
Othello
Episode 20
Troilus and Cressida
Episode 21
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Episode 22
King Lear
Episode 23
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Episode 24
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
Episode 25
The Second Part of Henry the Sixth
Episode 26
The Third Part of Henry the Sixth
Episode 27
The Tragedy of Richard III
Episode 28
Cymbeline
Episode 29
Macbeth
Episode 30
The Comedy of Errors
Episode 31
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Episode 32
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Episode 33
The Life & Death of King John
Episode 34
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Episode 35
Much Ado About Nothing
Episode 36
Love's Labour's Lost
Episode 37
Titus Andronicus