Special features: Bonus disc with the BBC's 1983 production of Macbeth; 12-page viewer's guide; biographies of other prominent playwrights of Shakespeare's day and of host James Shapiro; discussion questions. Presented by James Shapiro. Originally broadcast by BBC Four in 2012 as The king & the playwright : a Jacobean history.
Contents:
Macbeth. Macbeth.
Summary:
In this BBC series, American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth's successor, King James I. One of the new king's first official acts was to name Shakespeare a king's man. Shapiro convincingly argues that the dark, complex plays of Shakespeare's last decade-King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, among others-mirrored both royal life and the era's profound social changes.
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