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Wood uncovers Shakespeare’s rise to fame and fortune in Elizabethan London.
In the third episode, Wood uncovers Shakespeare's rise to fame and
fortune in Elizabethan London. Romeo and Juliet and A
Midsummer Night's Dream fuel this rise, but tragedy strikes as
his son Hamnet dies at the age of 11. Plunged into a mid-life
crisis, he falls in love with a teenage nobleman, has a passionate
affair with a mysterious married woman and is charged with assault.
Meanwhile, his theatre company builds the Globe and becomes caught
up in the rebellion against Queen Elizabeth. In the midst of it
all, Shakespeare creates some of the greatest characters in world
literature.