Release Date

28 Jun, 2003

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

4/1

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

In Search of Shakespeare

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Specials

Season 1

28 Jun, 2003

Created By

Michael Wood

Actors

Michael Wood

Desmond Barrit

Ray Fearon

Fred Melamed

Julian Glover

Gregory Doran

Eddie Redmayne

Antony Sher

Crew

Rebecca Dobbs

Krishan Arora

Peter Harvey

Michael Wood

David Wallace

Gerry Branigan

Leo Eaton