Synopsis
Shakespeare's rise to fortune and fame features in the third of Michael Wood 's four-part series. With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream he became England's top entertainer. But tragedy struck when his only son died aged 11. Plunged into a midlife crisis, Shakespeare fell for a teenage nobleman, had an affair with a married woman and was summonsed for GBH. Meanwhile, his theatre company built the Globe and, in the midst of it all, he created some of literature's most enduring characters.
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Similar plays, poems and sonnets
Great British Railway Journeys: Long Itchington to Moseley
In the Tudor town of Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, Michael visits the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, home since 1961 to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Yvonne and Julian learn about translating Shakespeare into BSL.