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Watch Simon Schama's Shakespeare Season 1 Episode 1 Online

  • COUNTRIES: United Kingdom
  • Subtitles: English

Schama explores how, in his history plays, Shakespeare created a vision of England that still rings true today. Against the backdrop of the Reformation, Shakespeare began to dramatize English history and the English character in a new and unprecedented way. From his first blockbuster, Henry VI, he made sure that his England was not just a place where King and Queens strutted and preened, but where ordinary Englishmen and women took centre stage.