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World Service,03 May 1994,27 mins

Shakespeare, The World he Knew

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A look at who would have been in the audience watching Shakespeare's plays in the Globe Theatre in Elizabethan England and what they might have believed and felt about the world. Contributors include Charles Nicholl and David Starkey.

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