1 Season
2 Episode
Simon Schama's Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 1 This England
Schama explores how, in his history plays, Shakespeare created a vision of England that still rings true today. Against the backdrop of the Reformation, Shakespeare began to dramatize English history and the English character in a new and unprecedented way. From his first blockbuster, Henry VI, he made sure that his England was not just a place where King and Queens strutted and preened, but where ordinary Englishmen and women took centre stage.
- Year: 2012
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: miniseries
- Director: Simon Schama
- Cast: Simon Schama, Harriet Walter, Peter de Jersey, Simon Russell Beale, Tobias Menzies, Andrew Scott