1 Season
2 Episode
Simon Schama's Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 2 Hollow Crowns
Simon Schama explores Shakespeare’s attitude to the other great subject of his day - Kingship. He asks how far Shakespeare’s most profound tragedies, including Richard II, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, were inspired by his own experience of writing for the courts of Elizabeth and James I.
- 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