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Wood examines Shakespeare’s life in the era of King James I.
In the final episode, Michael Wood examines Shakespeare's life in
the era of King James I. He unearths Shakespeare's neighborhood in
London and visits the current queen's robe-makers for evidence of
Shakespeare's role in the royal coronation. Shakespeare's world is
transformed in 1605 by the Gunpowder Plot, a Jacobean September 11.
The entertainment industry responded, and Shakespeare contributed
Macbeth, a daring play about the murder of a king. Finally, Wood
follows Shakespeare back to Warwickshire and looks at the riddle of
Shakespeare's will and its strange bequest to his wife, Anne.
