„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young lovers from their rival houses, but not how Shakespeare would tell it and, with his poetry and plotting, he created a work so powerful and timeless that his play has shaped the way we talk of love, especially young love, ever since.
With Helen Hackett (Professor of English Literature at University College London), Paul Prescott (Professor of English and Theatre at the University of California Merced), and Emma Smith (Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, University of Oxford).“ (BBC)
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