In Search of Shakespeare

The Duty of Poets (1x3)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 01, 2003

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.