Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius is a three-part documentary series that can be streamed on BBC iPlayer right now. Its goal is to provide us with new perspectives on the life of history’s greatest writer.
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, dubbed “the centerpiece” of the BBC’s 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio season, brings together scholars, authors, and an A-list cast of actors to offer a fresh perspective on Shakespeare’s amazing life story and demonstrate how a modest glover’s son from Stratford became the famous person that he was.
The show will include archive material of some of the greatest recorded renditions of the Bard’s plays, along with cinematic vignettes of the Bard’s life and contributions from its numerous guests. Anticipate the unravelling of the secrets surrounding Bard’s private life, such as his marriage to his wife and the passing of his son Hamnet, who was eleven years old at the time.
Recap
To pursue his ambition of becoming a playwright, Shakespeare bids his family farewell. He steps into a world full of rivalry, plague, and peril of many kinds. Shakespeare experiences a family tragedy and questions the price of his success as he rises to fame and money due to a political scandal that puts his life in danger.
Preview
As previously mentioned, the three-part series was first made to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the First Folio’s publication, which was a collection of plays written by William Shakespeare during his lifetime.
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius will appear considerably more like this, according to a revised BBC series synopsis. The text says as follows: “Delving deeply into the life of Shakespeare, the period and place he lived in, and the art he created, the series unveils a perilous and fascinating world full of savage rivalries, rebellion, murder, and a deadly epidemic, that kindled and nourished his creative genius.
Shakespeare’s life is portrayed in cinematic drama vignettes alongside a plethora of celebrities and scholars, such as Dame Judi Dench, Brian Cox, Adrian Lester, Lolita Chakrabarti, Helen Mirren, Martin Freeman, and Jessie Buckley; these individuals offer new perspectives on the life of our greatest writer.
Other writers and scholars who are featured include James Shapiro, Ewan Fernie, Jeanette Winterson, Brenda Hale, The Baroness Hale of Richmond, Gordon Brown, Jeremy O’Harris, and Professor Farah Karim-Cooper. Juliet Stevenson narrates the series.
Each episode traces Shakespeare’s life story, highlighting his literary achievements and failures and showing how the people and experiences he encountered influenced his writing. His plays are brought to life, and a collection of some of the greatest movie adaptations of the featured plays from throughout the globe are intercut throughout the series.”
In the dramatic vignettes that will appear throughout Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, Daniel Boyarsky plays William Shakespeare, the main character.
Furthermore, we are aware that Béla Szomori plays Lord Henry Carey, the patron of Shakespeare’s theatre company, while Petra Lippai-Horváth portrays Queen Elizabeth I, Máte Kovács plays King James, and Gergely Máté Kiss appears as the renowned Elizabethan actor, Richard Burbage.
Release Date And Where To Watch
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius Episode 3 will be released by BBC on Monday, 20 November 2023, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time, United States. Each episode lasts around 45 minutes. In the following list, you’ll find the regional time release schedules for this program.
- Pacific Time (PT): Monday at 6:00 PM PT
- Mountain Time (MT): Monday at 7:00 PM MT
- Central Time (CT): Monday at 8:00 PM CT
- British Standard Time (GMT): Tuesday at 2:00 AM GMT
- Central European Time (CET): Tuesday at 3:00 AM CET
- Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT): Tuesday at 1:00 PM AEDT
- India Standard Time (IST): Tuesday at 7:30 AM IST
- Singapore Time (SGT): Tuesday at 9:00 AM SGT
- New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT): Tuesday at 3:00 PM NZDT
On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 9 p.m. local time in the UK, BBC Two will debut the new limited docuseries. Following the show, you may stream Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius in its entirety on BBC iPlayer. Each of the three sixty-minute episodes in the season will air on TV once a week.
There is currently no confirmed premiere date for the US, Canada, or Australia. Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius will premiere on BBC Two on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 9 PM. You may watch the entire TV show Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius for free on BBC iPlayer once it concludes.
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