1606: Shakespeare & the Year of Lear PB history of shakespeare's times The 101 Greatest Plays: From

The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present

a time line of Shakespeare’s life and works

Michael Wood takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time - a period of tremendous upheaval that straddled the medieval and modern worlds

as well as interviews with top actors and directors

1606: Shakespeare & the Year of Lear PB history of shakespeare's times The 101 Greatest Plays: From1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear James Shapiro (Author) The sequel to James Shapiros multi award winning bestseller 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeares life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an