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James Shapiro examina las obras de Shakespeare durante la primera década del reinado del rey Jacobo, período en que las obras del dramaturgo eran oscuras y complejas. Shapiro sostiene que la década produjo los puntos álgidos de la cultura inglesa.

Documental · 2012 · 59 min

Reparto James Shapiro

Dirección Steven Clarke

EPISODIO 1

Incertainties

When Queen Elizabeth died without an heir, the English throne passed to the Scottish King James I. He was elusive, intellectual, and a foreigner with Catholic sympathies. Shakespeare responded with Measure for Measure, a play about regime change and political and religious tensions; Timon of Athens, about money, greed, and corruption; and King Lear, about a united England about to be divided.

59 min · 15 ene 2012
EPISODIO 2

Equivocation

After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 attempted an assassination on King James's life, England entered a new age of conspiracy, anxiety, and equivocation. Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus, a tragedy about a leader who cannot equivocate; Antony and Cleopatra, reflecting England's nostalgia for Elizabeth; and Macbeth, about the worst crime imaginable: the murder of a king.

59 min · 15 ene 2012
EPISODIO 3

Legacy

Shakespeare's late plays are often viewed as mellow swansongs. But during the last years of his life, Shakespeare was still experimenting and writing about subjects close to home. The Winter's Tale features a seemingly happy royal family that suddenly unravels. The Tempest bristles with dynastic politics. And in Henry VIII, the bard reflected one final time on the transformational nature of leadership.

59 min · 15 ene 2012

James Shapiro

Presentación
Steven Clarke

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Steven Clarke

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