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Complete four part series exploring the life of the world's greatest and most famous writer. Presenter-led, mixing travel, adventure, live action interviews and specially shot documentary and live action sequences with the RSC on the road. A history series - it focuses not on the plays, but on the history and sets the life of the poet in the extraordinary times in which he lived. We are introduced to the dark world of Queen Elizabeth's police state - a time of surveillance, militarism and foreign wars. We are reminded that Shakespeare lived through the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the colonisation of the New World and the beginnings of British power in America. But most importantly Shakespeare also lived through England’s Cultural Revolution: an enforced split with the old medieval English spirit world which was to lead the English people into a brave new Protestant future.
June 28, 2003
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Maya Vision International, BBC
8 people
Michael Wood
Himself - Host
Acting
Desmond Barrit
Various
Acting
Ray Fearon
Various
Acting
Fred Melamed
Announcer
Acting
Julian Glover
Self
Acting
Gregory Doran
Self
Directing
Eddie Redmayne
Self
Acting
Antony Sher
Self
Acting
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