In Search of Shakespeare
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Duty of Poets • Watch with subtitles

Episode 3: The Duty of Poets
July 12, 2003 • 60 min
In Episode Three of his historical detective story Michael Wood uncovers Shakespeare's rise to fame and fortune in Elizabethan London, and the disasters in life and love which marked his path to greatness. 1590s England was still split by religious conflict.
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