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Ever since Morgan Freeman watched Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a filmed version, he has loved The Taming of the Shrew. In this episode, Morgan investigates the role of Petruchio - a part he played in 1990 - and explores the origins, and the legacy, of Shakespeare's most notorious comedy.
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Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the end, makes Shakespeare so great?
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"Focusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, Collaborations with the Past illuminates not only the playwright's work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic process. By concentrating on rich yet problematic instances of Shakespeare's reanimation in such quintessentially...
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"Shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new experiment, a new combination of essentially the same ingredients... By approaching each play as an individual work of art, related to its predecessors, but essentially autonomous, the author is able to examine it with the clarity of perception that characterises the best theatrical approaches to Shakespeare (and, indeed, the...
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