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The King & the Playwright: A Jacobean History

Episode 2: Equivocation

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

James Shapiro's series about Shakespeare in the reign of King James. It's 1606 and, in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, Macbeth captures the anxiety of the time. Show more

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