I created the show several years ago when I happened upon the idea of not just exploring Shakespeare’s darker characters, but doing it chronologically, from the beginning of his writing career ...

aged 27 Not long after one of Shakespeare’s career high-points - winning the patronage of the newly-crowned King James I - the death of his youngest brother Edmund at the young age of 27 will ...

The RADA graduate took on numerous Shakespearean roles in theatre before playing Tybalt in his first television role – kicking off the BBC Television Shakespeare series, and a glittering career.

In the process it will reveal the life and career of Shakespeare in a totally new way and find out what the plays and their characters can mean to people today, revealing how they still have the ...