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  1. Simon Schama's Shakespeare: With Simon Schama, Harriet Walter, Peter De Jersey, Simon Russell Beale. Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new light on some of the greatest plays ever written.

  2. Simon Schama's Shakespeare. Simon Schama argues that it is impossible to understand how Shakespeare came to belong 'to all time' without understanding just how much he was of his...

  3. Simon Schama argues that it is impossible to understand how Shakespeare came to belong 'to all time' without understanding just how much he was of his time.

  4. Hollow Crowns. 2/2 Simon explores Shakespeare's attitude to the other great subject of his day - kingship.

  5. British historian Simon Schama presents his view that it is impossible to understand how Shakespeare came to belong `to all time', without understanding just how much he was of his time....

  6. This England. What influences of his time and situation led to the creation of Shakespeare's masterly plays? Simon Schama explores the history, political and religious intrigues and the tenor of the times that allowed a man from Stratford on Avon to write plays performed for the Queen -- that live on today. 8.7/10. Rate. Top-rated.

  7. Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. He asks the question: "What came first, Englishness, or Shakespeare's idea of it?" and produces a persuasive argument in favour of the latter.