Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

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A look at the life of William Shakespeare, his place and time and the work he produced.

Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting world that ignited his creativity.

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Julian Jones

Justin James

Tom Herington

Nick Foster

David Glover

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius: Series 1: Episode 1

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Shakespeare arrives in London, a hotbed of violence, and writes his bloodiest play.

Shakespeare waves goodbye to his family to follow his dream of becoming a playwright. He enters a world of plague, rivalry and every possible kind of danger.

1587. William Shakespeare leaves the small rural town of Stratford to pursue his dreams of becoming a playwright in the dangerous, growing metropolis of London. Public theatre is red-hot modernity, and Shakespeare begins his journey at the very bottom. Inspired by the live fast, die young world he inhabits, he writes the schlock horror hit Titus Andronicus and a teenage romance where all the young people die: Romeo and Juliet.

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