The King and the Playwright | 02: A Jacobean History: Equivocation

Duration: 58'56''

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Synopsis

James Shapiro's series about Shakespeare in the reign of King James. It's 1606 and, in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, Macbeth captures the anxiety of the time.

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