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Shakespeare In Italy

Season 1 · 2 episodes · May 3, 2012

  1. Episode 1

    Land Of Love

    May 3, 2012

    Francesco da Mosto shows how Shakespeare used Italy to tell his most passionate stories.

  2. Episode 2

    Land Of Fortune

    May 10, 2012

    Heading south to Rome, Francesco discovers how in his great Roman plays Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare used this ancient city as a smokescreen to address the most burning political issues of his day while avoiding trouble with the Elizabethan censors.