Epoch Episode · 1564 – 1616 CE
William Shakespeare
The Bard of Avon
The glover's son from Stratford whose thirty-seven plays remade the English language — and have never left the world's stages.
Epoch Episode · 6 scenes · ~48s
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▸Voice-over arc · Read the script
- S01"Stratford, fifteen-sixty-four. A glover's son named William is born."
- S02"He marries young. He vanishes. He resurfaces in London writing for the stage."
- S03"The Globe theatre rises by the Thames. His company plays for crowds and queens."
- S04"Hamlet. Macbeth. Lear. He breaks the language open and finds new English."
- S05"Sonnets sealed in the press. The first folio gathers his life's work."
- S06"He dies in sixteen-sixteen. The world's stages still bow to his ghost."
