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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Glorious landscape cinematography:

It is more than quarter of a century since Michael, nearly fresh out of Oriel College Oxford, first appeared on our TV screens. Clad in unfusty denim, he hurled himself about the great English outdoors, enthusiastically telling us about Eric Bloodaxe and Co in the BBC series 'In Search of the Dark Ages'.

Since then, Michael has been abroad with 'In Search of the Trojan War', 'In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great', and ... well, you get the general picture.

Now he's back in England -- mostly... more info

More Than You Saw On Public Television:

An exuberant Michael Wood takes the viewer through Shakespeare's life and his very troubled times. Traveling around Britain (often with the touring company of the Royal Shakespeare Company) the viewer is given quite an eyeful. Wood and his researchers also turn up interesting little tidbits all over the place mainly from an amazing amount of period documents that survive in government and private archives. Many of them have only turned uo in the last decade and do much to give us a filler picture of his... more info

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