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Simon Schama's Shakespeare
Season 1 · Episode 2
Hollow Crowns
0.01h 0mJune 29, 2012
Simon Schama explores Shakespeare’s attitude to the other great subject of his day - Kingship. He asks how far Shakespeare’s most profound tragedies, including Richard II, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, were inspired by his own experience of writing for the courts of Elizabeth and James I.