![]() The contemporary poet and playwright Ben Jonson declared that Shakespeare was "not of an age, but for all time". Well, he would wouldn't he, because he has just completed a four-part BBC2 series called In Search of Shakespeare, which attempts to put flesh on the bare bones of Shakespeare's life and show that the world's greatest playwright was very much a product of his time - a society in a state of revolution split between an old-world Catholic sensibility and the Protestant new order, the medieval and the modern. The film-maker and life-long Shakespeare fan Michael Wood thinks that is rubbish. ![]() ![]() In the recent Great Britons series, the legendary theatre director Peter Brook suggested that the biography of Shakespeare didn't matter one jot, it is only the plays that count. ![]()
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