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Free FreeIn this special event, Dora Thornton, British Museum, and Professor James S Shapiro, Columbia University, discuss how Shakespeare’s extraordinary plays responded to these tumultuous events.
1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, was a fraught one for England. Plague returned, there was surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain, and fear and uncertainty exposed deep divisions in the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot.
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2016-07-29 2016-07-29 Europe/London 1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear In this special event, Dora Thornton, British Museum, and Professor James S Shapiro, Columbia University, discuss how Shakespeare’s extraordinary plays responded to these tumultuous events. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/07/29/1606-william-shakespeare-and-the-year-of-lear-106852 British Museum,Great Russell Street, London,London,LondonLocation
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