A Waste Of Shame - Mystery Of Shakespeare & His Sonnets DVD

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An intense drama about the passionate and destructive love triangle that consumed Shakespere in his troubled middle years - adapting some of the most celebrated, sexual, raw, and vitriolic love poems ever written.

Shakespeare's Sonnets are the most compelling source for an emotional and dramatic journey into the psychology of the man himself. Self-analytical, brutally honest, they allow us to go behind the scenes of this complex genius - they are his story told in his own words. Behind the lyrical, beautifully crafted language, a brooding obsession with the 'Lovely Boy' and Shakespeare's extra-marital relationship with a 'Dark Lady' is revealed. The sonnet sequence is his unique meditation on love, sex, mortality and the creative urge, which has tantalised scholars and casual readers alike.

With a host of famous faces in the leading roles, the drama brings the bawdiness and the pitfalls of 16th century promiscuity to life. Rupert Graves, Zoë Wanamaker and Anna Chancellor star.


  None specified

  Rupert Graves, Zoe Wanamaker, Anna Chancellor

  John McKay

  90 mins

  2005

  E - exempt

  None specified

  English

  1

  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

  Usually despatched within 5 working days

£12.47