The show deals not only with Shakespeare's time but with how that era viewed its own history.

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The formation of the Globe Young Players is in the tradition of the child actor companies of Shakespeare's time.

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The theatres of Shakespeare's time have always been a puzzle.

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There is also a permanent exhibition telling the story of the building itself, complete with sets, costumes and reconstructions of what the Bankside area would have looked like in Shakespeare's time.

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But Shapiro says autobiography--a term that wasn't part of the language until the 19th century--was barely used in any kind of work in Shakespeare's time save for the odd sermon or other religious writing.

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In 2011, former Doctor Who stars Catherine Tate and David Tennant took on the roles at Wyndham's Theatre at the same time as an acclaimed production at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Eve Best and Charles Edwards.

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Eventually, we start getting longer sequences that feature Shakespeare's melodious dialogue, since much screen time is taken up with the rehearsals.

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In the most famous fictional speech of all time, Mark Antony had shown sensitivity to his different audiences in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by asking his "Friends, Romans, countrymen" to lend him their ears.

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