Michael Wood travels with the Royal Shakespeare Company who perform the plays in a Tudor inn yard as Shakespeare did, and using Tudor maps and remarkable Victorian photos brings his first London home back to life. At eighteen, William gets a local girl pregnant and his shotgun marriage also gives us his first known work, a love poem to his wife on their wedding day.Įp 2 The Lost Years – How this young man from Stratford became a star of the London stage. Between 12 and 15 the family is ruined and the boy has to leave school early. In the new Protestant state of Elizabeth, Shakespeare is brought up at home in a family loyal to the old faith, Catholicism.
His father is hounded by informers, loses his fortune, and sells off his lands. But suddenly William’s world turns upside down. William is one of the privileged few, brought up in a nice house, lots of money, servants, and a good education.
Ep 1 A Time of Revolution – Shakespeare’s life in the early years of Elizabeth’s reign.
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