Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. Macbeth was a cel animation directed by Nikolai Serebryakov
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.
Hacia 1750, en Yorkshire, un chico debe hacerse cargo del cuerpo ahorcado de un vagabundo francés conocido como Jack Black, pero éste, aún con vida, lo secuestra. Así comienza un picaresco viaje de aprendizaje al que se sumará una niña huida del manicomio.