Only Those With a 1500s-Style Vocabulary Can Identify These TV Shows From Their Shakespeare-Inspired Plot Summaries.

A learned master of alchemy, grievously struck by the ill humours of a wasting lung, in mortal desperation and dread love for his kin, doth conspire with a knavish former pupil to transmute base matter into a crystal of potent vice.

**A tale of the noble Crawley kin, and those who serve them day and night. In changing times, both highborn and low must learn to live anew, as the old ways fade and the world moves on.**

**Six companions lived, fair of youth and sprightly wit, who made their home in the isle of Manhattan. Through trials of the heart and labours of the day, they shared their joys and griefs alike, held fast by the bonds of friendship most true.**

**A Pennsylvanian company of clerks and scribes, whose labours were set within dull and dreary walls, performed tasks oft mundane; their days were full of quarrels of pride, jests, wearisome hours, and the stirrings of love.**

**A valiant captain and noble crew sailed a ship named the Enterprise. Their quest was to chart the stars and defend the Federation, facing unknown realms and foes, as they upheld peace and honour across the galaxy.**

**Nine houses warred for Westeros, whilst an ancient foe, long dormant, stirred once more.**

**A multitude of chronicles, steeped in deceit, intrigue, and foul murder, dost unfold within the frosty realms of Minnesota. Yet all these tales, by some strange fate, lead back unto one place.**

**A young maiden strives to endure the tumult of life in London, whilst her heart doth wrestle with a sorrowful tragedy most recent.**

**A comical tale of most foolish deeds of the public officials in an Indiana town, as they dost pursue various schemes to improve their fair city and make it a place of greater worth.**

**A tale of drama, set in the midst of New York’s most revered agency of advertisements, in the fair morn of the sixties, wherein the focus doth fall upon one most mysterious, yet most gifted in his craft.**

**The satirical exploits of a household of humble station, dwelling in the wayward town of Springfield, where folly and jest do ever abound.**

**A dramatic and comedic tale that doth trace the bond ‘twixt a mother, single and in her thirtyth year, and her sprightly daughter in her youth, as they dwell in a quaint and curious hamlet amid** Connecticut.

**A man of solemn charge, doth lead a band of clerks whose minds, by art unnatural, are cleft in twain—one self for toil, another for life beyond the office walls. When a strange companion appears beyond his reality, a quest most dire unfolds.**

**The sundry exploits of travellers and servants alike, who within a lavish resort do pass a se’nnight, their fates entwined in pleasures, secrets, and strife beneath a gilded roof.**

**Orphan’d at the tender age of nine, a prodigious and withdrawn girl findeth solace and purpose in a most cunning contest of wits and stratagems, rising to mastery in the land of America, ’tis the sixties.**

**A bitter rivalry ‘twixt keepers of great and savage beasts turneth grim, when an uncouth and flamboyant master of beasts becometh ensnared in a most foul and murderous plot, wherein coin is offered for blood.**

**From wealth to ruin in but a night, a fallen family findeth refuge in a humble hamlet once bought in jest—where strange customs and clashing ways soon stir both grief and laughter.**

**A man of beguiling charm and fever’d mind taketh dire steps to weave himself into the lives of those who seize his fixèd gaze.**

**A family of ranchers in fair Montana doth stand resolute ‘gainst those who seek to claim their land, as strife and fury rise ‘twixt them.**