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In Search Of Shakespeare

In Search Of Shakespeare
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Format: DVD
Screen: Aspect Ratio 16:9
Languages: English
Subtitles: English for the deaf and hard of hearing
No. of Disks: 2
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 25 August 2003
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He is the most famous of Englishmen, and yet our biographical knowledge of William Shakespeare has always been scant. Now Michael Wood - with the help of the Royal Shakespeare Company and many other insightful experts - unravels the mysteries, to tell the story of the band.
His Times: He lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and England's Cultural Revolution.
His Politics: In Elizabeth I's police state the bitter catholic-protestant feud dogs his life.
His Youth: His father's ruin forces the 14 year-old to leave grammar school and go to work.
His Loves: A father at 18, an infatuation with an aristocratic teenage boy and a passionate sexual affair with a married dark-skinned musician.
His 'lost years': What turned Shakespeare from a jobbing playwright into the best writer anyone had ever seen?
His Career: How he left Stratford to make his fortune in London, established the Globe and made his name "for all time".
His Plays: From inn courtyard to royal court - what his plays meant to his actors, his audience and his wallet.

Special Features

  • Scene Selection, Previously Unseen Footage.