Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

BBC Four HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Sunday 1 November

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Shakespeare struggles with the secret that his family are Catholic, which has been unearthed due to the events of the gunpowder plot. He creates the tragedy Macbeth to appeal to the new King James I. In his final years he reflects on his life, writing plays such King Lear and The Tempest, only for the Globe theatre he built to burn down, and he retires to Stratford, close to being forgotten