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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

King & the playwright.

Title:

Shakespeare : the king's man.

Edition:

[Widescreen format].

Publisher, Date:

[Silver Spring, Md.] : Athena, [2012]

Description:

2 DVDs (approximately 177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

In this BBC series, American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth's successor, King James I. One of the new king's first official acts was to name Shakespeare a king's man. Shapiro convincingly argues that the dark, complex plays of Shakespeare's last decade-King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, among others-mirrored both royal life and the era's profound social changes.

Target Audience Note:

Contains violent images.

Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

James I, King of England, 1566-1625.

Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography.

England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.

Genre:

Historical television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Clarke, Steven, television producer, television director.

Shapiro, James, 1955- presenter.

Green Bay Media (Firm), production company.

Athena (Firm), publisher.

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, sponsoring body.

Other Title:

King's man

Notes:

Title from container.

Not rated.

Special features: Bonus disc with the BBC's 1983 production of Macbeth; 12-page viewer's guide; biographies of other prominent playwrights of Shakespeare's day and of host James Shapiro; discussion questions.

Directed and produced by Steven Clarke ; a Green Bay production for BBC.

Presented by James Shapiro.

Originally broadcast by BBC Four in 2012 as The king & the playwright : a Jacobean history.

DVD ; Dolby digital stereo.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

Shakespeare -- Macbeth.

ISBN:

9781598289619

1598289616

Publisher Number:

AMP-8961

Other Number:

833204515

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

352870

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 822.33 Shakespe