In Search of Shakespeare

In Search of Shakespeare

In Search of Shakespeare
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Actor: Michael Wood
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS (Direct)

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Movie Review: The Life and Times of Shakespeare
Summary: 5 Stars

Simply put, one of the best documentaries I've seen. I was one of those kids who suffered through Shakespeare in high school, but that began to change one warm, tranquil summer night when the local university staged outdoors a production of A Midsummers' Night Dream; so moving and atmospheric, it was the way Shakespeare should be appreciated--not cooped in some classroom reading it from a book. And so too this documentary captures the essence of Shapespeare the man and the Elizabethan England in which he lived (as a subversive, no less). Shakespeare was NOT the man that centuries of scholars and changing moral tastes have made him into; he was a dynamic man, one who lived at times on the fringes of society, a man in many respects at odds with his changing times. He was, therefore, a person that youth of any generation in truth should be able to identify with, and this ultimately is what this fine documentary reveals. One can only wonder what a difference this documentary would have made had I been able to see it when I was in high school.

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