All Is True (2018)

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I'll take your horse, sir.

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Bring me some ale, boy, please.

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We heard a theater burnt, sir.

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Which one was it?

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Mine.

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You're Shakespeare, the poet.

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- You tell stories.
- I used to.

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I had a story,
but it was never finished.

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Will you finish it for me, please?

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I'm done with stories, lad.
I wouldn't know how to finish yours.

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Yes, you would.

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Good night, husband.

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Twenty years, Will.

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We've seen you less and less.

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To us, you're a guest.

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And a guest must have the best bed.

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Rest well.

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I always thought he'd end his life
in London. It's where he lived.

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Doesn't matter where he lived or dies.
All that matters is who will be his heir.

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I am his heir.
And our daughter, Elizabeth, after me.

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Not if your sister gives him a grandson.

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Or we do.

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I was thinking perhaps
I could make a garden.

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We've got a garden.

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I know, but not a kitchen garden
or a flower garden.

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A special garden for Hamnet.

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Hamnet's in paradise.
He doesn't need a garden.

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Perhaps I do.

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Bit of a change
from making plays in London.

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Well, in some ways, Maria.
In others, really rather similar.

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Similar? I don't see how.

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Well...

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like today, we take
the measure of our stage.

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A garden ain't a play.

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Yes, but play, garden, loaf,

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like the ones you bake every morning,

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all of them begin with an idea,

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from a compulsion to...

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create something of beauty or of need.

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Bread begins with yeast and flour.

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Exactly. Ingredients.
Now you're getting me.

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Bushes, brambles, yeast, flour,
verses, players,

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and they all need a dream
which will not be denied,

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and which must weather
all kinds of adversity,

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because the weather will turn,
the bugs will infest,

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the oven will cool, the yeast will sour,

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and in my case, your fellow workers,

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like a brilliant lunatic actor
called Dick Burbage, will interfere,

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and they will demand a bigger show
for a smaller budget,

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and a shorter play with
a much longer part for him,

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and all of these trials must be overcome

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without ever losing sight
of the dream itself.

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And what does it feel like
when all of that works?

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Well, what does
freshly baked bread smell like?

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What on earth are you doing here?

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Now, here's what I need you
not to pee on.

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This is what you don't pee on,
and this is what you don't pee on here.

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Husband!

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Thank you.

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Digging up roots is heavy work.

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You'll find that.

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I once uprooted an entire forest

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and moved it across the stage
to Dunsinane.

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Well, it's a bit different in real life.

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He showed such promise, Anne.

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You scarcely knew him.

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I knew him through his poems.

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- Well, you say "poems."
- Well, poems, yes.

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Childish scribble, perhaps,

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but wit and mischief in every line.

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Well, he'll write no more.

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No.

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And nor will I.

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It's not Hamnet you mourn. It's yourself.

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I mourn my son.

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Now.

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You mourn him now.

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At the “me, you wrote
The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Yes, I did.

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Well, it's an adjustment.

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She must learn to be a wife once more.

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My husband thinks
you've come home to die.

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Really?

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I've just bought a pension.

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I can't die for at least 10 years,
or I'll be ruined.

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So why are you come home?

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No more stories left to write?

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Susanna, I've lived so long
in imaginary worlds,

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I think I've lost sight of what is real.

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What is true.

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Judith says, "Nothing is true."

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Judith is 28 and a spinster.

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That is true.

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When Father dies,
I shall be destitute.

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No, child.

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A third of his fortune
comes to me while I live.

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While you live.

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You're older than him, remember?

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Well, Susanna will never see you want.

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Susanna will obey her husband.

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I will get nothing.

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Which is what I deserve.

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Judith.

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If you can't forgive yourself...

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how do you expect God
to forgive you?

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I don't.

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I ran here to this greenwood pond

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on the day I was sacked from the school.

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I know, Father.

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You know, the son of an alderman
has a free education,

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but the son of a thief...

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I thought my world had ended.

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But I loved this place.

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And you children loved it too.

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Yes.

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Yeah, well, we came here every day.

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- Although Hamnet never went in the water.
- No.

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He wasn't bold like Judith.

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Or even... Even me.

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But his mind was bold.

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I remember he brought me here once

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to show me what he had written.

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I told him then...

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that I was the proudest father
in the kingdom.

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I still am.

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Here, sweetheart.

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- Your father's mind is on his legacy.
- Your mind is on his legacy.

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And therefore must be yours.

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I'm your husband,

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and what concerns me concerns you.

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It's good, darling.

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Eat some more.

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Thank you.

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Husband! It's Sunday!

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Sunday?

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This isn't London.

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If you miss church here, they'll fine you.

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Good morning.

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I'm pleased to see you.

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Shakespeare.

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Another Sunday, and still
you occupy your family pew.

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I pray you'll never
be obliged to vacate it,

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as your father was.

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I am not my father, Sir Thomas.

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I joy to see you dig, sir.

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At last, given up on your plays
to distract the mob from our Lord.

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Does the lark's song distract you
from your God, John?

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Of course not.

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It is evidence of God.

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Well, then, perhaps for some...

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I was the lark.

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Came to ask a favor,
Father-in-Law,

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but I'm loath to distract
a man from his labors.

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Will you call when you're done
with your garden?

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- Yes, I shall call, John.
- Thank you.

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Susanna is well, yes?

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- She's well, sir. Thank you.
- And Elizabeth?

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- Also well, sir. Thank you.
- Good.

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- I’m glad to hear it.
- Yes.

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Yes.

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Thank you, John.

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Good day to you, Mrs. Hall.

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Tell your sister I have
a fine Rhenish wine delivered,

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and she may have a bottle gratis,

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for just a single smile.

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I'll tell her, Tom.

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- Morning, Lena.
- Good morning, Mrs. Hall.

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Package for you. Frank.

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I'm sorry.

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Mercurium, Mrs. Hall?

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My husband is a doctor.

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She said the parcel was for you.

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Morning, Kate.

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- Good day to you, Mr. Smith.
- Mrs. Hall.

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I need cloth.

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A loose weave,
to make a summer dress, black.

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Black? For summer?

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Perhaps this blue?

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My husband does not approve
of fancy stuff.

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If your husband had his way, Mrs. Hall,
my shop would be a very dull place.

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All in mourning, and nobody dead.

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Our Savior wore only simple cloth,

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and he was divine.

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As are you, Susanna, in any cloth.

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Mr. Smith...

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I am a married woman.

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Unhappily-

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That is not...

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I should tell my husband.

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Will you?

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He knows.

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Susanna.

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Our neighbor's dog has taken
a great interest in my gardening.

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John Hall has asked for my help
to remove the vicar.

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I thought he knew me better.

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- Well, he thinks you like him.
- I’m a good actor.

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And I try to like him,
for Susanna's sake, but John is...

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An hypocritical shit?

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A Puritan.

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That's funny, isn't it?

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A Puritan who wants
to close all the theaters

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will get all of
William Shakespeare's estate?

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Well, don't you think that's funny?

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I think that's funny.

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For what it's worth, Judith,

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I have no intention of leaving
my estate to John Hall.

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No. No, you'll leave it
to the sainted Susanna,

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and by law, her property is his,

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As is her body.
For all the use he makes of it.

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Oh, you are grown hard, Judith.

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There was a time when you were
such a simple, joyful soul.

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Was I, Father? And when was that?

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Was that before Hamnet died?
Is that it?

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Is it before Hamnet died
and I survived?

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- Judith.
- Well, it's what he thinks.

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Every single time he reads
one of them bloody poems,

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which aren't even that good,

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he thinks, "Why did
she survive and not him?"

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You know, "The golden boy's gone,
and you know what?

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I'm just left with a girl.

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A useless, pointless girl.

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Oh, she was
a pretty thing once, that girl.

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She was a simple, joyful soul, that girl,

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but you want to look at her now,
she's an angry bitch,

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still hanging around.

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Why did the wrong twin die?"

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Well, thank you for our supper, Anne.

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I never said an unkind word.
I never gave her cause.

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You spent so long putting words
into other people's mouths,

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you think it only matters what is said.

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Sir Thomas, I...

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The Puritans protest against
the old ways.

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Some of you resent this, I know.

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But I charge you, remember Corinthians.

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These good Christians
act from an honest faith.

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They are upright citizens.

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- They are decent, pious--
- Are they, Mr. Woolmer?

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Are they? Or are they fornicators?!

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I have seen Susanna Hall
creep from her husband's house

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to Rafe Smith's chamber in the night.

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- This slander will be answered!
- This slander will be proved!

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You'll no more tell us how
to save our souls, Dr. Hall.

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Not while your Puritan wives
fornicate worse than whores!

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I've instructed my lawyers.
We shall sue for slander.

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- A public trial?
- It's a public slander.

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John Lane is a dangerous man.

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We can be sure he did not stage his attack
without some idea of how to prove it.

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- Prove it?
- How can you ask?

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Because your husband fears he can.

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I mean, I fear he has constructed
a convincing lie.

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Well, now, what a disaster.

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And that it should befall such a fine
and blameless family as ours.

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The Shakespeares
will not be ruined twice.

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Bring forth the accused.

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John Lane is not here, Your Honor.

256
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- Not here?
- He has disappeared.

257
00:24:46,319 --> 00:24:49,947
Susanna Shakespeare
has been most foully used.

258
00:24:51,324 --> 00:24:54,827
In his absence, John Lane
is found guilty of slander

259
00:24:54,827 --> 00:24:56,912
and excommunicated!

260
00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:07,089
Why?

261
00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:11,344
Why did this man slander our Susanna?

262
00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:14,388
My guess is to damage her husband.

263
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:15,806
John Hall is a Puritan,

264
00:25:15,806 --> 00:25:18,476
and he would make Holy Trinity
and all the town likewise.

265
00:25:18,476 --> 00:25:23,814
John Lane, on the other hand,
likes his cakes and ale.

266
00:25:23,814 --> 00:25:27,068
Then why did he not attend court
and press his case'?

267
00:25:28,903 --> 00:25:30,821
I...

268
00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:33,991
discussed the matter with him.

269
00:25:33,991 --> 00:25:35,785
Discussed? Discussed what?

270
00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:43,209
I asked him if he'd ever seen
Titus Andronicus.

271
00:25:43,668 --> 00:25:46,045
What do I know of plays?

272
00:25:46,045 --> 00:25:47,880
Get away from me.

273
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,717
I'll see you and
your whore daughter in court.

274
00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:54,679
Well, I'll tell you, it concerns,
amongst other things,

275
00:25:54,679 --> 00:25:58,224
a Moorish villain named Aaron,

276
00:25:58,224 --> 00:26:03,896
and the African who played him
was magnificent and terrifying.

277
00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:07,233
To kill a man, or else devise his death,

278
00:26:07,233 --> 00:26:10,820
To ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,

279
00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:13,906
Accuse some innocent
and forswear myself,

280
00:26:13,906 --> 00:26:17,159
Set deadly enmity between two friends,

281
00:26:17,159 --> 00:26:19,912
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;

282
00:26:19,912 --> 00:26:23,165
Set fire on barns
and haystacks in the night,

283
00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:26,001
And bid the owners quench them
with their tears.

284
00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:29,338
Oft have I digg'd up
dead men from their graves,

285
00:26:29,338 --> 00:26:32,675
And set them upright
at their dear friends' doors.

286
00:26:32,675 --> 00:26:37,888
Tut, I have done
a thousand dreadful things

287
00:26:37,888 --> 00:26:41,475
As willingly as one would kill a fly,

288
00:26:41,475 --> 00:26:44,228
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed

289
00:26:44,228 --> 00:26:48,023
But that I cannot do ten thousand more!

290
00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:51,902
I have seen that man

291
00:26:51,902 --> 00:26:56,782
tear the heart from a fool
that wronged him.

292
00:26:56,782 --> 00:26:59,326
But he could be tender, too,
this extraordinary man.

293
00:26:59,326 --> 00:27:02,663
And one day, his wild heart was tamed,

294
00:27:02,663 --> 00:27:07,001
and he loved my daughter.

295
00:27:08,878 --> 00:27:10,129
Susanna?

296
00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:13,215
Yes, but their love
could never be, of course.

297
00:27:13,215 --> 00:27:17,720
But he swore that if ever
she had need of him,

298
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,974
then his sword, his claws
and his teeth would be hers,

299
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:25,227
either to defend her or to kill for her.

300
00:27:25,227 --> 00:27:30,441
Now, should I inform him
of Susanna's current distress?

301
00:27:30,441 --> 00:27:32,902
Will, I saw Titus.

302
00:27:32,902 --> 00:27:36,739
Aaron was played by the sweetest chap
you'd ever hope to meet.

303
00:27:36,739 --> 00:27:39,450
He was a lovely fellow.
But John Lane doesn't know that,

304
00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:41,994
and I've never let the truth
get in the way of a good story.

305
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:55,174
Do you think there's any truth in...

306
00:27:57,009 --> 00:27:59,428
In what Lane says about Susanna?

307
00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:03,891
Well...

308
00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:10,815
There is coldness between them.

309
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:15,069
We've seen that.

310
00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:17,196
It's five years since they had a child.

311
00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:21,784
She knows this Rafe Smith.

312
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:27,665
And she did send to London for mercury.
Mercury is a cure for the pox.

313
00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:29,083
Will.

314
00:28:29,083 --> 00:28:31,377
Susanna's not poxed. I'd know.

315
00:28:31,377 --> 00:28:33,963
Well, he, then? I mean,
a poxed man is always pissing.

316
00:28:33,963 --> 00:28:37,049
He seems to be. Is that...?

317
00:28:38,259 --> 00:28:41,470
Is that why she bears
no more children? Is...?

318
00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:42,388
Did she seek...

319
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:46,267
comfort elsewhere?

320
00:28:46,267 --> 00:28:47,977
Susanna's a God-fearing woman.

321
00:28:47,977 --> 00:28:50,437
She would not betray her husband.

322
00:28:50,437 --> 00:28:52,356
Well, maybe it isn't a betrayal.

323
00:28:52,356 --> 00:28:53,691
Judith?

324
00:28:53,691 --> 00:28:55,234
Well, maybe he told her to do it.

325
00:28:56,777 --> 00:28:59,321
Well, it's a thought, isn't it?

326
00:28:59,321 --> 00:29:02,283
And frankly, Father,
if you got a grandson by it,

327
00:29:02,283 --> 00:29:03,993
would you care if it were true?

328
00:29:07,288 --> 00:29:11,458
I care that Susanna is free from slander.
That, you may be sure, is true.

329
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,670
Nothing is ever true.

330
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,208
I wrote you another poem today.

331
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,127
Would you like to hear it?

332
00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:58,047
Hamnet?

333
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:04,511
Will?

334
00:30:16,398 --> 00:30:17,358
Anne?

335
00:30:21,111 --> 00:30:22,321
He was here.

336
00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:27,326
He'll always be here, Will.

337
00:30:59,692 --> 00:31:04,154
You know, in London now,
the plays have just finished.

338
00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:06,323
- Taverns will be full--
- If you're missing London,

339
00:31:06,323 --> 00:31:08,617
-why don't you go back there?
- Do you wish I would?

340
00:31:08,617 --> 00:31:11,912
It doesn't matter what I wish, but what
you wish, and it isn't to be with us.

341
00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:15,582
- So, what do you mean, Judith?
- You've come back to mourn Hamnet.

342
00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:17,584
To mourn your blessed, departed son,

343
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:19,420
-and dig a bloody garden for him.
- Judith.

344
00:31:19,420 --> 00:31:21,797
No, we mourned him, Father.

345
00:31:21,797 --> 00:31:24,425
We mourned him when he died,
and we mourned him thereafter,

346
00:31:24,425 --> 00:31:27,261
but now it seems like
we've just got to begin again

347
00:31:27,261 --> 00:31:29,638
as if his grave was freshly dug,
because suddenly,

348
00:31:29,638 --> 00:31:31,640
suddenly you found the time
to mourn him too.

349
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,809
Will you hold your tongue?!

350
00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:37,271
If you can't respect me,
respect yourself at least.

351
00:31:37,271 --> 00:31:40,190
And if you're done with mourning him,
then try and honor his memory.

352
00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:41,525
How can you say that I don't?

353
00:31:41,525 --> 00:31:43,902
Then start living up to it.
You can't match his talent,

354
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:45,863
then match his goodness
and his diligence,

355
00:31:45,863 --> 00:31:47,614
because you're wasting your life!

356
00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:54,997
I know what you think's
the purpose of a woman's life.

357
00:31:54,997 --> 00:31:57,458
I know what you want from me.

358
00:32:36,997 --> 00:32:38,207
Mr. Shakespeare?

359
00:32:39,792 --> 00:32:41,502
- I don't want to pester you.
- Good.

360
00:32:41,502 --> 00:32:43,754
Excellent news. Cheerio.

361
00:32:43,754 --> 00:32:46,090
I just wanted to ask you...

362
00:32:46,090 --> 00:32:49,134
The best way to get started as a writer
is to start writing.

363
00:32:50,010 --> 00:32:52,096
- Could I just...?
- I don't have a favorite play.

364
00:32:52,096 --> 00:32:53,847
I admire my fellow dramatists equally,

365
00:32:53,847 --> 00:32:56,809
and yes, I do think women should be
allowed to perform female roles,

366
00:32:56,809 --> 00:32:59,812
as is the practice on the continent.
Now, please, if you'll excuse me.

367
00:32:59,812 --> 00:33:02,523
I just wanted to ask how you knew.

368
00:33:02,523 --> 00:33:04,483
- Knew what?
- Everything.

369
00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:13,492
My friend, I don't even know how to keep
the slugs out of the hollyhocks.

370
00:33:13,492 --> 00:33:17,287
There is no corner of this world
you have not explored,

371
00:33:17,287 --> 00:33:21,500
no geography of the soul
which you cannot navigate.

372
00:33:23,377 --> 00:33:24,253
How?

373
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:27,089
How do you know?

374
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,844
Just what I know...

375
00:33:31,844 --> 00:33:36,098
if I know, and I don't say that I do, I...

376
00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:39,601
have imagined.

377
00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:44,815
But they say that you left school at 14.
You never traveled.

378
00:33:44,815 --> 00:33:47,818
-Imagined from what?
- From myself.

379
00:33:47,818 --> 00:33:48,735
Yourself?

380
00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:50,404
Yes.

381
00:33:50,404 --> 00:33:52,698
Everything I've ever done,
everything I've ever seen,

382
00:33:52,698 --> 00:33:56,785
every book I've ever read,
every conversation I've ever had,

383
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:58,662
including, God help me, this one.

384
00:34:03,584 --> 00:34:06,086
If you want to be a writer,

385
00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:09,298
and speak to others and for others,

386
00:34:09,298 --> 00:34:10,966
speak first for yourself.

387
00:34:12,426 --> 00:34:13,802
Search within.

388
00:34:15,345 --> 00:34:18,098
Consider the contents of your own soul...

389
00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:21,268
your humanity.

390
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:24,271
And if you're honest with yourself,

391
00:34:24,271 --> 00:34:26,565
then whatever you write,

392
00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:30,152
all is true.

393
00:34:32,029 --> 00:34:36,158
Now, if you can't save my hollyhocks,

394
00:34:36,158 --> 00:34:37,993
please leave me to mourn the dead.

395
00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:41,747
Then why?

396
00:34:45,334 --> 00:34:46,627
Why did you stop writing?

397
00:34:52,758 --> 00:34:53,592
Cheerio.

398
00:34:55,886 --> 00:34:57,137
Cheerio.

399
00:35:10,025 --> 00:35:11,860
Morning, Tom Quiney.
Barrel of huffcap ale

400
00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:14,529
and three flagons of Malmsey wine
to New Place, if you would.

401
00:35:14,529 --> 00:35:17,366
Your usual order, and my usual reply.

402
00:35:17,366 --> 00:35:20,827
Marry me, Judith.
I would help bring back your smile.

403
00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:23,580
Yeah, and every other maid
in the county, as you chase them all.

404
00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:27,292
- Yes, but I only ever propose to one.
- I’d think you'd tire of it.

405
00:35:27,292 --> 00:35:28,835
I remember a girl,

406
00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:31,463
the prettiest and the happiest in town.

407
00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:35,342
And I remember her laugh,
and I remember kiss chase.

408
00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:38,720
And I would like to see the woman
that girl should have become.

409
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:40,806
Because it surely isn't you.

410
00:35:51,358 --> 00:35:53,235
My lord!

411
00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:54,695
My lord.

412
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,571
For you, sir,
from the Earl of Southampton.

413
00:36:00,951 --> 00:36:03,036
Anne? Anne.

414
00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:07,040
The Earl of Southampton
makes a progress north,

415
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,836
and he writes to me here
that since he passes close by,

416
00:36:10,836 --> 00:36:13,213
he will spend an hour or two
in talk with me.

417
00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:17,676
Did you hear me, Anne?
The Earl of Southampton.

418
00:36:17,676 --> 00:36:18,719
I heard you.

419
00:36:21,138 --> 00:36:25,767
And I recall the first day I heard about
your friend, the Earl of Southampton.

420
00:36:26,977 --> 00:36:30,981
The same day as a book of poems
was published.

421
00:36:30,981 --> 00:36:32,858
Sonnets, they told me.

422
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,904
Suppose you thought,
because I couldn't read, I wouldn't mind.

423
00:36:40,449 --> 00:36:44,119
But plenty of people can read,
even in our little town.

424
00:36:47,164 --> 00:36:49,374
Including one of your own daughters.

425
00:36:49,374 --> 00:36:51,335
Anne, those sonnets
were published illegally,

426
00:36:51,335 --> 00:36:53,086
without my knowledge or my consent.

427
00:36:53,086 --> 00:36:55,380
But you wrote them, Will,
and people read them.

428
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:58,258
And after they'd read them,
they kept asking, "Who are they?

429
00:36:58,258 --> 00:37:01,011
Who is this dark lady
he's so in love with?"

430
00:37:01,011 --> 00:37:03,347
- They were just poems.
-"The handsome man?"

431
00:37:03,347 --> 00:37:05,682
- They were just poems.
- Don't answer.

432
00:37:07,684 --> 00:37:08,727
I don't want to know.

433
00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:11,563
I didn't want to know then,
and I don't want to know now.

434
00:37:14,358 --> 00:37:17,069
But I know who some people
said he was.

435
00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:20,864
Now it appears he's coming
to my house a-calling.

436
00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:32,209
All these years, Will...

437
00:37:33,543 --> 00:37:35,462
worried about your reputation.

438
00:37:37,798 --> 00:37:39,841
Have you even once considered mine?

439
00:38:02,864 --> 00:38:05,325
I've heard word of
your distinguished visitor,

440
00:38:05,325 --> 00:38:07,786
and my men tell me he's even now
approaching the town.

441
00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:09,996
You will, of course, introduce me.

442
00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:12,541
I shall suggest he comes on
to Charlecote to take his ease.

443
00:38:12,541 --> 00:38:13,834
Bit more what he's used to.

444
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:17,587
Naturally, I shall ask that you join us.
Just you, I think.

445
00:38:17,587 --> 00:38:19,756
We shouldn't wish to tire His Grace.

446
00:38:19,756 --> 00:38:21,550
And you may go in.

447
00:38:21,550 --> 00:38:23,593
We shall greet His Grace.

448
00:38:33,186 --> 00:38:35,897
Welcome to Stratford-upon-Avon,
Your Grace.

449
00:38:35,897 --> 00:38:36,773
And you are?

450
00:38:37,566 --> 00:38:41,194
Sir Thomas Lucy
of Charlecote Manor, Your Grace,

451
00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:43,697
and member of Parliament for this district.

452
00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:47,534
May I have the honor
of introducing my wife?

453
00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:50,036
- Have we business?
- Well, I...

454
00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:52,873
Is there some petition
which you've come to present?

455
00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:55,959
Oh, no, no. I thought only to invite you--

456
00:38:55,959 --> 00:38:59,337
Then kindly remove yourself, Sir Thomas.
I want none of your company.

457
00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:02,924
I'm here to visit the
greatest man in the kingdom.

458
00:39:02,924 --> 00:39:04,843
After His Majesty, of course.

459
00:39:06,428 --> 00:39:09,764
Damn impudence.
Grubby little member of Parliament.

460
00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:13,435
They'll sell a knighthood
to anybody these days.

461
00:39:16,646 --> 00:39:19,316
He has snubbed me so many times.

462
00:39:19,316 --> 00:39:21,610
Why do you let him snub you?

463
00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:24,279
What is he? The son of a son.

464
00:39:24,279 --> 00:39:25,780
Nothing more.

465
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:28,867
All his pride and strut comes from
no greater achievement

466
00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:31,828
than having been spat
from the dick of a previous nonentity.

467
00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:33,830
- Well, I'm the same.
- No.

468
00:39:33,830 --> 00:39:36,666
I'm the son of a son, Will.

469
00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:38,585
Henry Wriothesley,
son of Henry Wriothesley.

470
00:39:38,585 --> 00:39:40,629
And if I were not the son
of Henry Wriothesley,

471
00:39:40,629 --> 00:39:44,466
then your Thomas Lucy,
son of Thomas Lucy,

472
00:39:44,466 --> 00:39:46,885
would not grace me with a sneer.

473
00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:50,180
- You, on the other hand, are...
- Are the son of a thief.

474
00:39:50,180 --> 00:39:51,932
The son of Apollo, Will.

475
00:39:53,475 --> 00:39:55,268
God of poetry, god of truth.

476
00:39:56,269 --> 00:39:58,605
The finest...

477
00:39:58,605 --> 00:40:00,315
the most complete...

478
00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:05,278
and most beautiful mind, I warrant,
that ever existed in this world.

479
00:40:10,951 --> 00:40:11,826
So...

480
00:40:13,286 --> 00:40:15,080
why are you so small, Will?

481
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:20,627
- Small?
- Why are you such a little man?

482
00:40:20,627 --> 00:40:21,753
Your Grace, I...

483
00:40:23,380 --> 00:40:25,966
You can enchant the multitude
with a scratch of your quill,

484
00:40:25,966 --> 00:40:28,343
and yet you cringe
before Sir Thomas Lucy.

485
00:40:28,343 --> 00:40:30,387
- Cringe?
- Your talent has a greater scope

486
00:40:30,387 --> 00:40:33,807
than all the other poets combined,

487
00:40:33,807 --> 00:40:36,309
and yet you've lived the smallest life.

488
00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:39,688
I don't feel I've lived a small life,
Your Grace.

489
00:40:39,688 --> 00:40:42,607
Come now, Will. Compared to Kyd?

490
00:40:44,484 --> 00:40:46,486
Or Marlowe?

491
00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:49,281
Oh, what a man he was.

492
00:40:49,281 --> 00:40:53,076
What a life.
Spy, adventurer, fucked for England.

493
00:40:53,076 --> 00:40:56,162
Boys, girls. Boys and girls.

494
00:40:57,831 --> 00:40:59,291
He knew how to live.

495
00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:02,085
He's dead, of course, my lord,
so, you know, win some, lose some.

496
00:41:02,085 --> 00:41:05,714
Yes, they are all dead, Will.
Marlowe, Greene.

497
00:41:05,714 --> 00:41:06,798
Who called me "upstart."

498
00:41:07,424 --> 00:41:11,803
Oh, "upstart crow."
You see, still you care, still it rankles.

499
00:41:13,263 --> 00:41:15,098
Kyd, Nashe...

500
00:41:15,098 --> 00:41:16,516
Spenser.

501
00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:17,684
All dead.

502
00:41:19,019 --> 00:41:22,272
Booze and passion,
sex and violence, killed them all.

503
00:41:23,940 --> 00:41:25,150
Life killed them.

504
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,903
But you...

505
00:41:30,739 --> 00:41:31,740
You survived.

506
00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:33,199
Yes, I survived.

507
00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:38,455
- In your nice house.
- Several houses.

508
00:41:38,455 --> 00:41:40,957
And your coat of arms,
how much did that cost you, Will?

509
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,086
- Twenty pounds.
- Twenty pounds.

510
00:41:45,086 --> 00:41:48,465
The man who wrote Hamlet
and Henry V and Macbeth,

511
00:41:48,465 --> 00:41:51,843
Romeo and Juliet,
paid £20 for the name of "gentleman."

512
00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:55,472
Will, why do you care?

513
00:41:57,724 --> 00:42:01,144
My father was once fined
for not attending church.

514
00:42:01,144 --> 00:42:03,063
Can you guess why he didn't go?

515
00:42:03,063 --> 00:42:05,982
Priest too Protestant?

516
00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:07,400
Well, I've heard it rumored

517
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,153
there is a whiff of popery
about you Shakespeares.

518
00:42:10,153 --> 00:42:13,406
Nothing so spiritual.
He could not attend church

519
00:42:13,406 --> 00:42:17,369
because he owed money
to half of the congregation.

520
00:42:24,709 --> 00:42:26,836
Oh, I think I should have liked your dad.

521
00:42:26,836 --> 00:42:28,421
Well, yes, people did.

522
00:42:29,714 --> 00:42:30,674
I did.

523
00:42:34,761 --> 00:42:36,304
You must write again, Will.

524
00:42:38,348 --> 00:42:39,599
London needs you.

525
00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:42,185
I need you.

526
00:42:49,109 --> 00:42:51,277
We have only Jonson now.

527
00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:53,571
Who laughs at me
because I speak no Greek

528
00:42:53,571 --> 00:42:55,782
and don't know whether
Bohemia has a coast.

529
00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:58,702
Christ, Will, why do you care
what he thinks? You wrote King Lear.

530
00:42:58,702 --> 00:43:02,247
I care because it matters, Your Grace.
Well, in England, it matters.

531
00:43:02,247 --> 00:43:04,332
I have what I have upon my own merit,

532
00:43:04,332 --> 00:43:06,584
and for that I'm suspect.

533
00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:09,754
Well, perhaps I'll always be suspect.

534
00:43:09,754 --> 00:43:13,091
But I have my money,
and I have my houses,

535
00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:15,593
and I have my coat of arms.

536
00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:18,263
And you have your verses.

537
00:43:18,263 --> 00:43:20,890
Great Christ, man, you have your poetry.

538
00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:22,308
Such poetry.

539
00:43:22,308 --> 00:43:23,518
Such beautiful...

540
00:43:26,438 --> 00:43:27,897
Beautiful poetry.

541
00:43:34,446 --> 00:43:36,030
And some of it...

542
00:43:39,367 --> 00:43:41,786
Some of it was writ for me.

543
00:43:41,786 --> 00:43:43,538
Yes.

544
00:43:43,538 --> 00:43:44,956
Yes, Your Grace.

545
00:43:44,956 --> 00:43:46,332
For you.

546
00:43:48,877 --> 00:43:50,754
I have grown old.

547
00:43:50,754 --> 00:43:54,674
As you said in your sonnets
that I would, you bastard.

548
00:43:57,510 --> 00:44:01,055
But the beauty I inspired in you
will be forever young.

549
00:44:04,058 --> 00:44:05,852
And in a thousand years from now,

550
00:44:05,852 --> 00:44:07,812
when people read those lines, I will...

551
00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,231
Will be young.

552
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:13,860
Alive Still.

553
00:44:15,945 --> 00:44:18,782
In the hearts of lovers yet unborn.

554
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:23,703
They were only meant for you,
Your Grace.

555
00:44:23,703 --> 00:44:27,999
Not for any other living soul,
nor any yet to live.

556
00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:30,919
Just you.

557
00:44:35,381 --> 00:44:37,967
It was only flattery, of course.

558
00:44:37,967 --> 00:44:39,719
Flattery that was my due.

559
00:44:40,303 --> 00:44:41,304
Yes.

560
00:44:42,430 --> 00:44:43,765
Just flattery.

561
00:44:45,016 --> 00:44:46,059
Except...

562
00:44:47,769 --> 00:44:50,605
I spoke from deep within my heart.

563
00:44:54,108 --> 00:44:55,693
Well, I was younger then.

564
00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:00,573
Younger and prettier.

565
00:45:00,573 --> 00:45:04,911
Beautiful, Your Grace,
as you will ever be.

566
00:45:04,911 --> 00:45:09,749
When in disgrace
with fortune and men's eyes,

567
00:45:09,749 --> 00:45:12,669
I all alone beweep my outcast state,

568
00:45:12,669 --> 00:45:15,463
And trouble deaf heaven
with my bootless cries,

569
00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:18,716
And look upon myself and curse my fate,

570
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:21,511
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

571
00:45:21,511 --> 00:45:24,430
Featured like him,
like him with friends possessed,

572
00:45:24,430 --> 00:45:26,975
Desiring this man's art
and that man's scope,

573
00:45:26,975 --> 00:45:29,853
With what I most enjoy contented least;

574
00:45:29,853 --> 00:45:33,773
Yet in these thoughts
myself almost despising,

575
00:45:33,773 --> 00:45:37,485
Haply I think on thee,

576
00:45:37,485 --> 00:45:39,737
and then my state,

577
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:43,950
Like to the lark at break of day arising

578
00:45:43,950 --> 00:45:50,081
From sullen earth
sings hymns at heaven's gate;

579
00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:55,628
For thy sweet love remembered
such wealth brings,

580
00:45:57,005 --> 00:46:02,635
That then I scorn to change
my state with kings.

581
00:46:10,143 --> 00:46:12,020
Yes, well, as I say...

582
00:46:13,730 --> 00:46:14,647
just flattery.

583
00:46:14,647 --> 00:46:16,065
Not flattery, truth.

584
00:46:17,901 --> 00:46:20,111
And I always dared to hope.

585
00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:21,738
Hope?

586
00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:27,368
- Will?
- That perhaps in some...

587
00:46:28,661 --> 00:46:32,832
small way, it was reciprocated.

588
00:46:32,832 --> 00:46:35,376
- Reciprocated?
- That perhaps you also...

589
00:46:35,376 --> 00:46:38,379
- You forget yourself, Will.
- I...

590
00:46:40,924 --> 00:46:42,842
As a poet, you have no equal,

591
00:46:42,842 --> 00:46:46,137
and I, like anyone with brain or heart,

592
00:46:46,137 --> 00:46:47,680
am your humble servant.

593
00:46:50,099 --> 00:46:53,019
But as a man, Will,
it is not your place to love me.

594
00:46:54,938 --> 00:46:57,315
And hanging a £20 shield
above your door...

595
00:46:58,858 --> 00:47:00,568
will never make it so.

596
00:47:12,413 --> 00:47:13,748
Well, I must be off.

597
00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:16,459
Farewell.

598
00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:20,421
It was the poet that I came to visit,

599
00:47:20,421 --> 00:47:23,800
and it is of the poet that I take my leave.

600
00:47:31,265 --> 00:47:34,394
When in disgrace
with fortune and men's eyes,

601
00:47:36,104 --> 00:47:39,232
I all alone beweep my outcast state,

602
00:47:40,441 --> 00:47:44,195
And trouble deaf heaven
with my bootless cries,

603
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:46,572
And look upon myself and curse my fate,

604
00:47:47,782 --> 00:47:51,953
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

605
00:47:51,953 --> 00:47:55,289
Featured like him,
like him with friends possessed,

606
00:47:55,289 --> 00:48:00,628
Desiring this man's art
and that man's scope,

607
00:48:02,922 --> 00:48:05,675
With what I most enjoy contented least;

608
00:48:07,635 --> 00:48:10,513
Yet in these thoughts
myself almost despising,

609
00:48:10,513 --> 00:48:13,057
Haply I think on thee,

610
00:48:14,308 --> 00:48:15,768
and then my state,

611
00:48:15,768 --> 00:48:18,646
Like to the lark at break of day arising

612
00:48:18,646 --> 00:48:22,567
From sullen earth
sings hymns at heaven's gate;

613
00:48:23,943 --> 00:48:27,697
For thy sweet love remembered
such wealth brings,

614
00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:33,494
That then I scorn to change
my state with kings.

615
00:48:47,133 --> 00:48:48,426
William Shakespeare.

616
00:50:30,403 --> 00:50:32,071
I noticed that your friend, the Earl,

617
00:50:32,071 --> 00:50:35,158
didn't bring his wife with him
on his travels.

618
00:50:35,158 --> 00:50:37,994
Perhaps he doesn't find
female company to his taste.

619
00:50:43,708 --> 00:50:45,793
I'm sure His Grace
and the Countess Elizabeth

620
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:49,005
are most happy in their marriage.

621
00:50:49,005 --> 00:50:50,798
As I would wish you to be, Judith.

622
00:50:52,091 --> 00:50:53,467
Why are you still unwed?

623
00:50:53,467 --> 00:50:55,553
You are so pretty, I think.

624
00:50:55,553 --> 00:50:57,638
- I don't.
- Well, look in your glass.

625
00:50:57,638 --> 00:51:00,349
I don't have a glass.
I didn't like the person I saw in it.

626
00:51:00,349 --> 00:51:03,436
Good God, daughter,
that's a bleak thought,

627
00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:05,646
since the only company you keep
is your own.

628
00:51:05,646 --> 00:51:07,940
- Yeah, but there it is.
- And what of children?

629
00:51:07,940 --> 00:51:10,526
- All women want children.
- Apparently.

630
00:51:10,526 --> 00:51:12,695
Well, don't you want a child?

631
00:51:12,695 --> 00:51:14,822
Do you want me to replace
Hamnet for you, Father?

632
00:51:14,822 --> 00:51:17,867
I meant just as a... For your own sake.

633
00:51:17,867 --> 00:51:21,662
A husband, children
for companionship, comfort.

634
00:51:21,662 --> 00:51:24,832
Perhaps she sees that marriage
may not bring you either.

635
00:51:24,832 --> 00:51:27,043
Oh, is that it, Judith? Is that it?

636
00:51:27,043 --> 00:51:30,338
You've seen your mother's misery
and you thought, "Oh, I'll be a spinster,

637
00:51:30,338 --> 00:51:32,882
rather than get shackled
to some man who neglects me."

638
00:51:32,882 --> 00:51:35,218
- I did not say I was miserable.
- No, you didn't, Anne,

639
00:51:35,218 --> 00:51:37,386
but though I put words
into other people's mouths,

640
00:51:37,386 --> 00:51:40,264
I, too, can occasionally see
beyond what is merely said,

641
00:51:40,264 --> 00:51:41,891
and I'll have no more of this.

642
00:51:41,891 --> 00:51:44,018
I've worked ceaselessly
on behalf of this family.

643
00:51:44,018 --> 00:51:47,313
- On your own behalf.
- Yeah, and I'm head of this family!

644
00:51:47,313 --> 00:51:50,107
And I've given you
a fine house and servants,

645
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:52,526
sent you money all your life.
Is not that comfort?

646
00:51:53,653 --> 00:51:56,822
You have two beautiful daughters,
you've got a brilliant son and a husband

647
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:59,075
who, though absent,
kept you always in his thoughts.

648
00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:02,119
Is that not that companionship
in abundance?

649
00:52:04,830 --> 00:52:07,541
I've risen this family up!

650
00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:10,419
Through my genius, I've brought
fame and fortune to this house.

651
00:52:10,419 --> 00:52:13,756
Yes, yes, my genius.
Would you have me ignore that as well?

652
00:52:13,756 --> 00:52:15,341
Ignore a gift from God Almighty

653
00:52:15,341 --> 00:52:17,093
so that I could stay here in Stratford

654
00:52:17,093 --> 00:52:19,011
and be a bloody glove maker,

655
00:52:19,011 --> 00:52:22,682
and you might feel
a bit more appreciated?!

656
00:52:22,682 --> 00:52:26,310
Hamnet died, and I wasn't here!
I know that!

657
00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:27,979
Hamnet died, and the plague took him.

658
00:52:27,979 --> 00:52:30,564
But the plague's taken millions,
and it would have taken him

659
00:52:30,564 --> 00:52:34,568
whether I was in Stratford or London
or on that godforsaken highway.

660
00:52:34,568 --> 00:52:38,948
We just-- We lost our boy! I know that!

661
00:52:38,948 --> 00:52:41,784
And I wasn't here!

662
00:52:41,784 --> 00:52:44,328
How many times can I say it?
I wasn't here!

663
00:52:44,328 --> 00:52:47,707
We lost our brilliant,
brilliant boy, and I wasn't--

664
00:52:47,707 --> 00:52:49,834
Oh, Hamnet wasn't brilliant!

665
00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:54,130
- What do you...?
- Judith, don't.

666
00:52:55,506 --> 00:52:58,175
- What do you mean?
- He was beautiful...

667
00:52:59,468 --> 00:53:01,804
but he wasn't brilliant.

668
00:53:01,804 --> 00:53:03,931
Judith, I said don't.

669
00:53:06,392 --> 00:53:09,603
- I wrote them.
- Wrote... Wrote what?

670
00:53:11,105 --> 00:53:12,398
The poems.

671
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:18,404
These verses that you hold so dear,

672
00:53:18,404 --> 00:53:21,991
with wit and mischief in every line.

673
00:53:21,991 --> 00:53:23,617
I made them up.

674
00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:26,287
Hamnet only wrote them down.

675
00:53:26,287 --> 00:53:28,831
She helped him a little. That's all.

676
00:53:28,831 --> 00:53:31,542
No, I made them up. All of them.

677
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:33,627
- No.
- Hamnet was sweet, and he was kind,

678
00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:38,382
-but he was no good. He wasn't!
- No. No, he was absolutely brilliant!

679
00:53:38,382 --> 00:53:39,383
No, Will.

680
00:53:40,968 --> 00:53:43,471
He was an ordinary little boy.

681
00:53:43,471 --> 00:53:45,973
- What?
- If you'd looked closer, then you'd see...

682
00:53:45,973 --> 00:53:47,308
If I looked at my own son?!

683
00:53:47,308 --> 00:53:49,226
- Yeah, if you looked...
- I looked at my son!

684
00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:51,520
You saw what you wanted to see.
You saw yourself.

685
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,230
What of myself?!

686
00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:57,860
You saw a boy with a mind
who was as big and as bold as yours.

687
00:53:57,860 --> 00:54:02,073
But happy, you know,
with a father who appreciated his genius.

688
00:54:02,073 --> 00:54:05,576
He wasn't a genius, but he was clever
enough to know he could never live up

689
00:54:05,576 --> 00:54:08,829
to what you wanted him to be.
He dreaded your visits.

690
00:54:14,502 --> 00:54:17,213
We didn't plan it, not at the beginning.

691
00:54:19,173 --> 00:54:23,969
Judith was always making up stories
and conjuring rhymes.

692
00:54:26,013 --> 00:54:29,433
Hamnet heard one and...

693
00:54:29,433 --> 00:54:33,938
And wrote it down one day
for practice with his pen.

694
00:54:33,938 --> 00:54:36,774
You found it and thought it was his
and praised him.

695
00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:42,488
So are they worthless now?

696
00:54:56,377 --> 00:54:58,838
They're not his.

697
00:54:58,838 --> 00:55:00,881
Will you read them no more?

698
00:55:00,881 --> 00:55:03,801
You sit in the sun and chuckle at their wit.

699
00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:07,304
Well, they aren't his.

700
00:55:08,889 --> 00:55:09,765
No.

701
00:55:12,393 --> 00:55:13,853
They're mine.

702
00:55:22,695 --> 00:55:26,574
And so I will do what I bloody well
please with them.

703
00:55:34,748 --> 00:55:38,627
No! No, no, no!

704
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:42,339
No, no, no, you can't have them.

705
00:56:50,783 --> 00:56:54,537
Judith tried to teach herself to write,

706
00:56:54,537 --> 00:56:57,831
you know, after Hamnet's death.

707
00:56:59,833 --> 00:57:02,002
But she never had the patience.

708
00:57:02,002 --> 00:57:03,587
Not like Susanna.

709
00:57:08,259 --> 00:57:10,344
I should have liked
to have been able to write

710
00:57:10,344 --> 00:57:15,349
a few letters of the alphabet,
particularly married to you.

711
00:57:19,061 --> 00:57:21,897
Remember our wedding day?

712
00:57:21,897 --> 00:57:24,817
Me, older, pregnant...

713
00:57:26,694 --> 00:57:29,738
and you a strange, clever lad of 18.

714
00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:33,951
I know what people thought.

715
00:57:36,704 --> 00:57:38,747
I couldn't even sign the register.

716
00:57:38,747 --> 00:57:40,916
Just made a stupid mark.

717
00:57:40,916 --> 00:57:43,002
I felt so foolish.

718
00:57:46,255 --> 00:57:50,551
Then you went to London
and became this great writer,

719
00:57:50,551 --> 00:57:55,139
with a wife at home
who couldn't read a word.

720
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,359
I often wondered if it bothered you.

721
00:58:10,237 --> 00:58:11,322
But why should it?

722
00:58:13,449 --> 00:58:14,950
You were hardly here.

723
00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:35,763
I'm sorry.

724
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,518
You lost your son.

725
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:42,811
Any man would mourn.

726
00:58:44,271 --> 00:58:46,440
A daughter is nothing.

727
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,902
They're destined only to become
the property of another man.

728
00:58:49,902 --> 00:58:51,028
We fade away.

729
00:58:51,028 --> 00:58:53,906
No, Judith.

730
00:58:53,906 --> 00:58:57,117
You mustn't fade away.
Why don't you write again?

731
00:58:57,117 --> 00:59:00,371
- Father, you know I cannot write.
- I could teach you.

732
00:59:03,499 --> 00:59:05,376
I have no verse left in me anymore.

733
00:59:05,376 --> 00:59:07,795
- Why?
- Because the wrong twin died.

734
00:59:07,795 --> 00:59:10,631
No, it was the plague.
The plague makes no judgments.

735
00:59:10,631 --> 00:59:12,341
It's just a plague.

736
00:59:12,341 --> 00:59:14,259
Well, I wish a plague had taken me.

737
00:59:14,259 --> 00:59:16,595
Judith, why do you hate yourself?

738
00:59:16,595 --> 00:59:19,807
I have stolen Hamnet from you twice:

739
00:59:19,807 --> 00:59:22,559
Once by surviving him,

740
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:24,978
and now by taking
your dream of him away.

741
00:59:24,978 --> 00:59:27,564
You've given me a new dream.

742
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:29,858
My beautiful daughter, the poet.

743
00:59:29,858 --> 00:59:31,694
A woman cannot be a poet.

744
00:59:33,153 --> 00:59:35,656
A woman is put upon this Earth
for one reason.

745
00:59:37,324 --> 00:59:38,867
I know my duty now.

746
00:59:41,328 --> 00:59:43,914
I will make amends
for stealing Hamnet from you.

747
00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:48,585
I promise I will make amends.

748
01:00:14,570 --> 01:00:17,573
I'm glad Hamnet didn't write the poems.

749
01:00:17,573 --> 01:00:20,659
- Glad?
- I know him better now.

750
01:00:20,659 --> 01:00:23,787
And it's love, not ambition,
that will blossom in this garden.

751
01:00:23,787 --> 01:00:27,291
Well, something has to.
Not much else has blossomed.

752
01:00:27,291 --> 01:00:29,877
I'm not a good gardener, it's true.

753
01:00:31,795 --> 01:00:35,549
Found it easier
to create things with words.

754
01:00:35,549 --> 01:00:37,301
Well, you'll find that.

755
01:00:39,803 --> 01:00:41,013
Would you like me to help?

756
01:00:49,062 --> 01:00:52,316
And here. I think further.

757
01:00:52,316 --> 01:00:53,942
- Over here?
- Yes.

758
01:00:59,948 --> 01:01:01,116
That one.

759
01:01:03,452 --> 01:01:07,873
Make a really big hole.
Oh, brilliant. So maybe we can put...

760
01:01:40,656 --> 01:01:41,824
Good night, Anne.

761
01:01:43,450 --> 01:01:44,785
Stay with me, Will.

762
01:01:48,121 --> 01:01:49,331
For comfort.

763
01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:52,543
In our second-best bed.

764
01:02:09,893 --> 01:02:12,646
I will take that glass of Rhenish wine
with you, Tom Quiney.

765
01:02:22,865 --> 01:02:24,533
You know that I am not a good man.

766
01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:27,953
There have been women.

767
01:02:27,953 --> 01:02:29,496
Many women.

768
01:02:29,496 --> 01:02:31,832
Look, I've seen too little of life.

769
01:02:31,832 --> 01:02:34,001
You've seen too much.

770
01:02:34,001 --> 01:02:37,379
But perhaps together
we may begin again.

771
01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:48,974
She was not ordering wine.
She was drinking it with Quiney.

772
01:02:48,974 --> 01:02:51,810
She was inside for half an hour or more.

773
01:02:51,810 --> 01:02:55,689
If Judith is reaching for a little happiness,
then I'm glad of it.

774
01:02:55,689 --> 01:02:58,692
Sinning will not make her happy.

775
01:02:58,692 --> 01:03:00,652
Really?

776
01:03:00,652 --> 01:03:02,988
Then let us hope
it makes her unhappiness

777
01:03:02,988 --> 01:03:05,616
a little more bearable.

778
01:03:05,616 --> 01:03:07,993
That is a wicked thing to say.
Remember your scripture.

779
01:03:07,993 --> 01:03:10,412
What I remember is
a little girl who smiled a lot.

780
01:03:10,412 --> 01:03:12,873
A reputation once lost cannot be refound.

781
01:03:12,873 --> 01:03:15,542
- Mine was!
- Yours was not lost!

782
01:03:16,752 --> 01:03:22,466
It was defamed by a convicted drunkard
and suspected Papist.

783
01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:25,802
Judith must drop this Quiney.
He's debauched.

784
01:03:27,846 --> 01:03:30,223
If only those without sin
were allowed to marry,

785
01:03:30,223 --> 01:03:32,684
there would be precious few weddings.

786
01:04:13,517 --> 01:04:16,186
I can't see you anymore, Margaret.

787
01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:17,270
I'm sorry.

788
01:04:17,270 --> 01:04:19,064
Because of Judith Shakespeare.

789
01:04:19,064 --> 01:04:22,109
I never made you a promise, Margaret.
You know that.

790
01:04:22,109 --> 01:04:24,987
- If we sinned, we sinned together.
- She's with child.

791
01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:29,157
- Can you be sure it's mine?
- You dare ask it?

792
01:04:29,157 --> 01:04:31,034
Margaret has many friends
at the tavern.

793
01:04:31,034 --> 01:04:33,286
- Dare again.
- I’m certain. I...

794
01:04:33,286 --> 01:04:34,246
I think...

795
01:04:36,206 --> 01:04:38,083
I believe it's yours, Tom.

796
01:04:39,209 --> 01:04:40,544
Honestly, I do.

797
01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:50,262
Francis Collins, come in, come in.
You'll take some wine?

798
01:04:50,262 --> 01:04:53,432
- Please.
- Maria, some wine, if you please.

799
01:04:53,432 --> 01:04:55,726
I'm relieved to see you
in such high spirits, Will.

800
01:04:55,726 --> 01:04:58,478
When a man sends for his lawyer,
it is not always so.

801
01:04:58,478 --> 01:05:01,440
- Judith is getting married.
- No.

802
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,817
Congratulations.

803
01:05:03,817 --> 01:05:06,528
It was a crime that such a spirited
young woman remained unwed.

804
01:05:06,528 --> 01:05:08,113
Well, crime no longer.

805
01:05:08,113 --> 01:05:10,407
And so I would like to amend my will

806
01:05:10,407 --> 01:05:14,119
to include my new son-in-law,
Tom Quiney.

807
01:05:14,119 --> 01:05:15,620
Quiney, is it'?

808
01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:18,123
- Wine and tobacco. Good trade.
- Can't think of a better.

809
01:05:18,123 --> 01:05:23,336
And thus, we must also make provision
for their male issue, my...

810
01:05:26,339 --> 01:05:27,257
grandsons.

811
01:05:28,842 --> 01:05:29,801
Many of them.

812
01:05:31,762 --> 01:05:34,097
I should also like to...

813
01:05:34,097 --> 01:05:35,474
To leave something to Anne.

814
01:05:35,474 --> 01:05:38,810
Anne? Oh, if she survives you,
she will have a third by law.

815
01:05:38,810 --> 01:05:42,272
She'll survive me, no doubt about that.
She's years older and 10 times tougher.

816
01:05:42,272 --> 01:05:45,817
I don't mean money. She'll have
more of that than she can spend.

817
01:05:45,817 --> 01:05:47,569
No, I had in mind a...

818
01:05:48,945 --> 01:05:50,072
A piece of furniture.

819
01:05:50,781 --> 01:05:52,157
Furniture?

820
01:05:52,908 --> 01:05:56,078
But surely Anne will live here
and have the use of every stick.

821
01:05:56,578 --> 01:05:59,831
A specific piece of furniture which,

822
01:05:59,831 --> 01:06:03,418
when it is no longer ours,
must be hers,

823
01:06:03,418 --> 01:06:06,713
and when she is in it, I hope she will...

824
01:06:08,590 --> 01:06:12,719
smile and think of me.

825
01:06:16,431 --> 01:06:17,557
So...

826
01:06:45,919 --> 01:06:49,798
So one son-in-law owns a wine shop,
and the other one wants to close it.

827
01:06:51,299 --> 01:06:52,467
Welcome to my family.

828
01:06:52,467 --> 01:06:55,095
I know that sometimes we...

829
01:06:55,095 --> 01:06:57,681
We Shakespeares have been
our own worst enemies,

830
01:06:57,681 --> 01:07:01,685
and sometimes we have had...

831
01:07:03,103 --> 01:07:04,312
the worst of enemies.

832
01:07:04,312 --> 01:07:06,940
If ever John Lane
shows his face round here again,

833
01:07:06,940 --> 01:07:08,275
he'll have his nose cut off!

834
01:07:08,275 --> 01:07:10,777
Yes, we've had our ups and downs, but...

835
01:07:11,486 --> 01:07:13,780
I flatter myself that...

836
01:07:13,780 --> 01:07:18,702
That I have brought some
small credit to my hometown.

837
01:07:26,543 --> 01:07:28,003
And although I no longer ha--

838
01:07:39,598 --> 01:07:41,224
Although I no longer have a son...

839
01:07:43,059 --> 01:07:47,981
and show me a family in this town
that has not lost at least one child,

840
01:07:47,981 --> 01:07:52,360
I have two beautiful daughters.

841
01:07:54,279 --> 01:07:58,074
And so perhaps one day,
I shall have a grandson.

842
01:08:00,202 --> 01:08:04,664
And for that, of course, I, in fact,
look to you, Torn, and also to you, John,

843
01:08:04,664 --> 01:08:07,584
so please be about your business.

844
01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:08,543
Thank you very much.

845
01:08:12,214 --> 01:08:15,258
For family is everything...

846
01:08:16,885 --> 01:08:17,969
and today...

847
01:08:21,848 --> 01:08:24,643
I could not be more proud of mine.

848
01:08:47,332 --> 01:08:50,001
I saw Margaret Wheeler
in the church today, Torn.

849
01:08:55,632 --> 01:08:56,841
I know it, Judith.

850
01:09:00,887 --> 01:09:02,639
And I cannot undo what is done.

851
01:09:05,308 --> 01:09:06,893
I have confessed all to you.

852
01:09:14,067 --> 01:09:17,821
All I can promise you is that
her and her child will want for nothing.

853
01:09:52,147 --> 01:09:53,606
We'll find him.

854
01:09:53,606 --> 01:09:55,025
Where is he?

855
01:09:55,025 --> 01:09:56,484
Is he over there?

856
01:09:56,484 --> 01:09:58,320
- He's over there.
- Everything all right?

857
01:10:00,322 --> 01:10:02,615
Anne, is everything all right?

858
01:10:02,615 --> 01:10:03,658
Yes, fine.

859
01:10:05,285 --> 01:10:06,411
Then why the...?

860
01:10:08,538 --> 01:10:09,622
Well, you see...

861
01:10:11,458 --> 01:10:14,336
Father, we have some news.

862
01:10:16,254 --> 01:10:19,382
- And that news is...
- Yes?

863
01:10:19,382 --> 01:10:20,300
That I'm pregnant.

864
01:10:24,637 --> 01:10:27,140
Oh, no, my dear!

865
01:10:27,140 --> 01:10:28,975
Oh, yes!

866
01:10:28,975 --> 01:10:31,144
Mr. Quiney!

867
01:10:34,272 --> 01:10:35,815
Well done, my boy.

868
01:10:35,815 --> 01:10:37,233
My darling.

869
01:10:37,233 --> 01:10:40,195
Sister, I'm truly happy for you.

870
01:10:40,195 --> 01:10:42,530
Oh, this is so wonderful.

871
01:10:42,530 --> 01:10:45,325
But where is John? John should be here.

872
01:10:45,325 --> 01:10:48,161
He was called out to a confinement.

873
01:10:48,161 --> 01:10:49,245
Quiney!

874
01:10:55,668 --> 01:11:00,673
Margaret Wheeler has died in childbirth,

875
01:11:00,673 --> 01:11:02,467
along with her baby.

876
01:11:04,719 --> 01:11:06,346
The child has no name.

877
01:11:08,473 --> 01:11:11,059
It will not enter heaven without one.

878
01:11:49,264 --> 01:11:52,267
Well, well, Mr. Shakespeare.

879
01:11:52,267 --> 01:11:53,685
How very unfortunate.

880
01:11:54,769 --> 01:11:58,231
Seems your daughter's wedding
was rushed for a reason.

881
01:11:58,231 --> 01:12:00,608
Like your own, eh?

882
01:12:00,608 --> 01:12:04,112
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

883
01:12:05,488 --> 01:12:09,075
Damn me, you Shakespeares
are a scandalous lot.

884
01:12:09,075 --> 01:12:11,035
Perhaps being an illiterate farm girl,

885
01:12:11,035 --> 01:12:15,707
your wife was unable
to teach your girls morals.

886
01:12:16,958 --> 01:12:19,752
Well, well. Must be getting on.

887
01:12:19,752 --> 01:12:24,382
Can't loll about all day
thinking pretty thoughts, like you poets.

888
01:12:24,382 --> 01:12:25,341
I must to business.

889
01:12:25,341 --> 01:12:28,344
- Business, Sir Thomas?
- Yes, business.

890
01:12:28,344 --> 01:12:30,972
A large estate like Charlecote
doesn't run itself, you know.

891
01:12:30,972 --> 01:12:32,807
Oh, I thought you meant real business.

892
01:12:32,807 --> 01:12:36,019
Like building, owning and operating
London's largest theater, for instance.

893
01:12:36,019 --> 01:12:38,605
Actors, carpenters,
seamstresses, crew to pay,

894
01:12:38,605 --> 01:12:42,317
bribes to pay, security to mount,
politics to navigate,

895
01:12:42,317 --> 01:12:45,320
3000 paying customers
to be fed and watered every afternoon,

896
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:47,530
each promised a spectacle
greater than the last.

897
01:12:47,530 --> 01:12:51,784
One hundred and seventy royal command
performances for our queen and our king.

898
01:12:51,784 --> 01:12:54,412
Have you considered the logistics
of the Battle of Shrewsbury

899
01:12:54,412 --> 01:12:57,624
in the banqueting hall at Hampton Court?
Don't. It would make you so tired.

900
01:12:57,624 --> 01:12:59,834
And yet, in all the years
that I have run my vast,

901
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:02,629
complex and spectacularly
successful business, Thomas,

902
01:13:02,629 --> 01:13:06,424
I have indeed found the time
to think and to write down

903
01:13:06,424 --> 01:13:09,052
the pretty thoughts you mention
and which, in my experience,

904
01:13:09,052 --> 01:13:12,639
bring immense pleasure to those
who seek mere diversion

905
01:13:12,639 --> 01:13:15,558
or respite from this vale of tears,

906
01:13:15,558 --> 01:13:19,437
without which,
it would all be about as pointless as...

907
01:13:21,064 --> 01:13:22,982
Well, about as pointless
as you, Sir Thomas.

908
01:13:22,982 --> 01:13:26,110
And since you mention her,
my wife, Anne,

909
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:29,906
has more decency and wisdom
in her daily shit

910
01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,283
than you have in your entire body.

911
01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:34,702
Oh, and I wish I had poached
your bloody deer.

912
01:13:44,963 --> 01:13:47,173
Quiney bequest removed, sir.

913
01:13:52,011 --> 01:13:56,182
I take no pleasure in Judith's distress,
Father-in-Law.

914
01:13:56,182 --> 01:13:58,184
Or yours.

915
01:13:58,184 --> 01:13:59,394
It grieves me.

916
01:14:00,645 --> 01:14:01,938
I know that, John.

917
01:14:21,457 --> 01:14:24,586
Will you work with me a while, husband?

918
01:14:24,586 --> 01:14:26,421
You can put some beer out for the slugs.

919
01:14:26,421 --> 01:14:28,840
By the look of it, Anne,
you do better without me.

920
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:33,011
I think I shall walk a little.

921
01:14:44,397 --> 01:14:45,898
She did it for you, Will.

922
01:14:47,650 --> 01:14:49,319
You wanted a grandson.

923
01:15:15,887 --> 01:15:17,388
You didn't attend the funeral.

924
01:15:18,598 --> 01:15:21,017
I was on my way home.

925
01:15:21,017 --> 01:15:23,061
The news reached London after I'd left.

926
01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:28,566
By the time I got here,
he was already in the ground.

927
01:15:30,068 --> 01:15:31,736
It was summer.

928
01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:36,658
No corpse remains unburied long,
particularly a plague corpse.

929
01:15:38,117 --> 01:15:39,410
This is the page.

930
01:15:41,037 --> 01:15:43,289
August 1596.

931
01:15:57,220 --> 01:15:58,346
Hamnet...

932
01:16:00,181 --> 01:16:01,307
Shakespeare.

933
01:16:03,017 --> 01:16:04,227
There he is.

934
01:16:07,188 --> 01:16:08,606
I brought him a penknife.

935
01:16:09,941 --> 01:16:11,943
It was a special one with a folding blade.

936
01:16:11,943 --> 01:16:15,571
It had his initials
engraved on the handle.

937
01:16:15,571 --> 01:16:17,281
He'd have loved that knife.

938
01:16:17,281 --> 01:16:19,992
I keep it with me all the time.

939
01:16:27,083 --> 01:16:29,293
- Do you mind if I...?
- Please.

940
01:16:32,296 --> 01:16:33,589
Whenever I...

941
01:16:33,589 --> 01:16:36,759
Whenever I trim a new quill...

942
01:16:38,261 --> 01:16:42,056
I imagine that it's not mine,

943
01:16:42,056 --> 01:16:45,810
but his hand, grown to be a man,

944
01:16:45,810 --> 01:16:48,104
and there he is, trimming...

945
01:16:48,104 --> 01:16:50,398
Trimming his quill
with the knife his father gave him

946
01:16:50,398 --> 01:16:52,859
on that joyful homecoming so long ago.

947
01:16:54,527 --> 01:16:56,279
And then, when I...

948
01:16:57,697 --> 01:17:01,868
When I dip the ink and make a mark, it's...

949
01:17:01,868 --> 01:17:06,164
It's still his hand I see
and his words that I write,

950
01:17:06,164 --> 01:17:11,627
and then I imagine that it's not me

951
01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:13,671
who thinks of him at all,

952
01:17:14,964 --> 01:17:19,385
but that I am dead and Hamnet lives...

953
01:17:20,636 --> 01:17:22,638
and it's him who thinks of me.

954
01:17:24,390 --> 01:17:28,644
People often ask me
how I've written so much,

955
01:17:28,644 --> 01:17:33,441
how I've found the energy and dedication
to sit alone at my desk,

956
01:17:33,441 --> 01:17:35,318
writing play after play after play,

957
01:17:35,318 --> 01:17:37,278
but the answer is quite simple.

958
01:17:39,655 --> 01:17:42,033
I was always in the company of my son.

959
01:17:48,873 --> 01:17:50,249
My boy.

960
01:19:03,030 --> 01:19:04,907
You sent for me, Father?

961
01:19:04,907 --> 01:19:06,909
Yes. Yes, Judith. Thank you for coming.

962
01:19:08,786 --> 01:19:13,416
Your new home is comfortable, I hope?

963
01:19:13,416 --> 01:19:17,420
Well, there's a lot of work to do,
but my husband's working hard.

964
01:19:18,754 --> 01:19:21,215
Despite all the shame he brought us, he...

965
01:19:21,215 --> 01:19:22,425
He is a good man.

966
01:19:27,930 --> 01:19:31,392
I visited Hamnet's grave today,

967
01:19:31,392 --> 01:19:35,938
and I read his name in the register.

968
01:19:35,938 --> 01:19:37,857
- Oh, I'm glad of it.
- Anne...

969
01:19:40,443 --> 01:19:42,069
I know the plague.

970
01:19:43,613 --> 01:19:48,034
Many times in London it struck,
all the theaters were closed, so I do...

971
01:19:48,034 --> 01:19:50,244
I know the plague, and...

972
01:19:52,079 --> 01:19:54,290
I was thinking today that...

973
01:19:55,291 --> 01:19:59,086
the Black Death is a scythe.

974
01:20:01,672 --> 01:20:03,090
It is not a dagger.

975
01:20:05,384 --> 01:20:07,178
How's that?

976
01:20:07,178 --> 01:20:10,514
Never once did I see it

977
01:20:10,514 --> 01:20:15,227
strike a single person and then depart.

978
01:20:20,483 --> 01:20:22,109
How did Hamnet die?

979
01:20:25,029 --> 01:20:27,073
His death is recorded
in the parish register,

980
01:20:27,073 --> 01:20:29,075
but no mention of the cause.

981
01:20:29,951 --> 01:20:31,243
Plague, husband.

982
01:20:33,204 --> 01:20:36,499
The vicar pronounced it at his funeral.

983
01:20:36,499 --> 01:20:39,210
Because that is what you told him,

984
01:20:39,210 --> 01:20:41,504
and also, no doubt,
what you told the gravesmen

985
01:20:41,504 --> 01:20:43,589
who came to the greenwood

986
01:20:43,589 --> 01:20:46,926
to find him already stitched up
in his shroud.

987
01:20:48,928 --> 01:20:50,888
But when I look at the graves

988
01:20:50,888 --> 01:20:53,891
around about Hamnet's and the register,

989
01:20:53,891 --> 01:20:55,893
I see that no scythe

990
01:20:55,893 --> 01:20:59,772
swung through this town
in the summer of 1596.

991
01:20:59,772 --> 01:21:03,985
In fact, precisely,
only five children were taken,

992
01:21:03,985 --> 01:21:07,238
and three of them were newborns.

993
01:21:07,238 --> 01:21:09,073
Not like the other plague years,

994
01:21:09,073 --> 01:21:11,242
where dozens upon dozens and dozens

995
01:21:11,242 --> 01:21:13,828
were struck down each time it struck.

996
01:21:16,914 --> 01:21:21,002
So, Judith, Anne...

997
01:21:22,712 --> 01:21:23,796
please tell me.

998
01:21:26,882 --> 01:21:28,676
How did my son die?

999
01:21:30,136 --> 01:21:31,679
He died of plague.

1000
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,353
I woke Mother in the night with my cry.

1001
01:21:42,481 --> 01:21:44,233
Hamnet's bed was empty.

1002
01:21:46,777 --> 01:21:49,530
Mother searched the house.

1003
01:21:49,530 --> 01:21:52,450
And then she thought of
the greenwood pond.

1004
01:21:54,493 --> 01:21:57,079
That was his favorite place,

1005
01:21:57,079 --> 01:21:59,665
even though he couldn't swim

1006
01:21:59,665 --> 01:22:02,293
and he'd never go in the water.

1007
01:22:05,171 --> 01:22:06,589
Around him...

1008
01:22:08,799 --> 01:22:11,135
torn and shredded,

1009
01:22:11,135 --> 01:22:15,181
were the final verses of the poems

1010
01:22:15,181 --> 01:22:19,060
that I had conjured and that he had writ.

1011
01:22:21,353 --> 01:22:23,773
We prepared them
for when you came home.

1012
01:22:28,319 --> 01:22:33,949
Mother asked me
to get threads and blankets

1013
01:22:33,949 --> 01:22:37,328
so that nobody would ever
find out how he died.

1014
01:22:42,625 --> 01:22:43,667
That's Judith's story,

1015
01:22:43,667 --> 01:22:46,128
and she's carried it
like a burden ever since,

1016
01:22:46,128 --> 01:22:49,715
but I say he died of plague.

1017
01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:52,384
The vicar spake it at his grave.

1018
01:22:54,345 --> 01:22:56,680
And God accepted it.

1019
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,057
Millions of people died of it,

1020
01:22:58,057 --> 01:23:01,727
and Hamnet entered heaven
amongst that host.

1021
01:23:04,146 --> 01:23:07,608
Jesus would never have
denied him a place,

1022
01:23:07,608 --> 01:23:10,236
in spite of what Judith said we saw.

1023
01:23:10,236 --> 01:23:12,780
Well, of course.

1024
01:23:12,780 --> 01:23:14,573
Well, of course he's in heaven.

1025
01:23:16,909 --> 01:23:18,661
Hamnet didn't kill himself.

1026
01:23:18,661 --> 01:23:22,164
He only threw himself upon the water.
It was I that caused it.

1027
01:23:26,877 --> 01:23:28,337
I killed him.

1028
01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:30,923
- Judith, it's not so.
- I killed my brother.

1029
01:23:32,550 --> 01:23:36,262
You see, all he wanted to do
was to please you.

1030
01:23:37,888 --> 01:23:41,142
All that you cared about was him,

1031
01:23:41,142 --> 01:23:43,936
and all he cared about was you.

1032
01:23:45,896 --> 01:23:47,314
I was jealous.

1033
01:23:50,776 --> 01:23:52,153
I was jealous...

1034
01:23:54,238 --> 01:23:56,115
because Hamnet went to school...

1035
01:23:58,409 --> 01:24:01,287
and I had to work in the kitchens
because I was a girl.

1036
01:24:03,581 --> 01:24:06,292
But I wanted your approval.

1037
01:24:06,292 --> 01:24:08,002
I wanted your love.

1038
01:24:09,587 --> 01:24:14,091
And so I told him that I would tell you.

1039
01:24:14,091 --> 01:24:18,220
That you would finally know
who'd writ the verse.

1040
01:24:22,516 --> 01:24:25,644
I didn't... I didn't mean it.

1041
01:24:27,188 --> 01:24:28,355
I didn't mean it.

1042
01:24:34,278 --> 01:24:36,447
He died of plague.

1043
01:24:38,782 --> 01:24:40,242
God accepted it.

1044
01:24:43,495 --> 01:24:45,414
It was only a little lie.

1045
01:24:49,376 --> 01:24:50,961
He was only a little boy.

1046
01:26:00,823 --> 01:26:03,075
You finished it.

1047
01:26:03,075 --> 01:26:03,951
Thank you.

1048
01:26:05,369 --> 01:26:06,912
My story's done.

1049
01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:09,748
I can rest.

1050
01:26:13,919 --> 01:26:15,129
Hamnet, please.

1051
01:26:17,923 --> 01:26:19,174
Stay a moment.

1052
01:26:23,387 --> 01:26:26,390
We are such stuff

1053
01:26:27,641 --> 01:26:30,019
As dreams are made on,

1054
01:26:32,062 --> 01:26:34,523
and our little life

1055
01:26:34,523 --> 01:26:37,276
Is rounded with a sleep.

1056
01:28:13,122 --> 01:28:14,123
I'm sorry.

1057
01:28:16,166 --> 01:28:17,334
I think that...

1058
01:28:19,253 --> 01:28:23,006
perhaps I may have caught a chill.

1059
01:28:27,428 --> 01:28:31,181
Ben Jonson, it is good to see you.

1060
01:28:31,181 --> 01:28:34,226
Christ, Will, you've had a time of it.

1061
01:28:34,226 --> 01:28:37,980
Both daughters caught up in scandals.

1062
01:28:37,980 --> 01:28:39,523
Good for them.

1063
01:28:39,523 --> 01:28:43,444
Yes, retirement hasn't exactly brought
the peace we might have hoped for.

1064
01:28:43,444 --> 01:28:47,614
In my experience, Will,
no one gets what they hope for.

1065
01:28:47,614 --> 01:28:49,450
But they do tend to get
what they deserve.

1066
01:28:49,450 --> 01:28:51,452
And you think I got what I deserve?

1067
01:28:51,452 --> 01:28:56,165
Well, not all of it, perhaps,
but something, certainly.

1068
01:28:57,374 --> 01:28:58,500
You lost a son.

1069
01:28:58,500 --> 01:29:03,297
No man deserves that,
though many men suffer it.

1070
01:29:03,297 --> 01:29:07,676
- I myself have lost a son and a daughter.
- I know you did, my friend.

1071
01:29:07,676 --> 01:29:10,971
But you have two daughters still
who love you.

1072
01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:16,226
And a wife to share your bed.
I have none of that.

1073
01:29:16,226 --> 01:29:20,230
- Mine own Anne despises me.
- Yeah, well, you do publicly insult her.

1074
01:29:20,230 --> 01:29:21,857
You call her a shrew, so...

1075
01:29:21,857 --> 01:29:25,819
Yeah, well, I didn't say she had no cause.
Only that she does.

1076
01:29:30,115 --> 01:29:35,746
You told me that Southampton says
you've led a little life.

1077
01:29:35,746 --> 01:29:37,748
What an arse.

1078
01:29:37,748 --> 01:29:41,043
Well, I mean,
you conquered England, Will,

1079
01:29:41,043 --> 01:29:46,089
and returned victorious
to the bosom of your family.

1080
01:29:46,089 --> 01:29:48,467
How is that little? Is it little?

1081
01:29:48,467 --> 01:29:49,885
Perhaps the second part.

1082
01:29:49,885 --> 01:29:52,471
Well, the second part is the best part.

1083
01:29:52,471 --> 01:29:54,973
You made it home, Will.

1084
01:29:54,973 --> 01:29:57,518
How many other conquerors
can say the same?

1085
01:29:57,518 --> 01:29:59,311
What poets, huh?

1086
01:29:59,311 --> 01:30:02,356
Anyone can die alone and despised.

1087
01:30:02,356 --> 01:30:03,941
I mean, Marlowe was murdered.

1088
01:30:03,941 --> 01:30:06,735
No one knows which of
his many enemies did it.

1089
01:30:06,735 --> 01:30:11,365
I mean, Greene, died in poverty,
estranged from all who knew him.

1090
01:30:11,365 --> 01:30:12,658
Kyd, the same.

1091
01:30:12,658 --> 01:30:14,451
I mean, no one knows how
Torn Nashe died,

1092
01:30:14,451 --> 01:30:17,246
but if his filthy dildo poems

1093
01:30:17,246 --> 01:30:20,332
are anything to go by,
it wasn't in the bosom of his family.

1094
01:30:20,332 --> 01:30:21,375
I think not.

1095
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:27,130
And me?
Well, while I am not dead yet,

1096
01:30:27,130 --> 01:30:30,551
I may soon be, for I am
out of favor with the king,

1097
01:30:30,551 --> 01:30:34,346
and none will speak for me.

1098
01:30:35,764 --> 01:30:39,226
But you, you made it home, Will.

1099
01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:48,860
So sorry. I'm fine.

1100
01:30:54,658 --> 01:30:58,036
You've had your friends and your family...

1101
01:30:59,663 --> 01:31:01,665
a full fire and a full belly.

1102
01:31:03,166 --> 01:31:05,877
And by the way, you've also written

1103
01:31:05,877 --> 01:31:09,423
the greatest body of plays
that ever were or will be.

1104
01:31:10,507 --> 01:31:11,758
You bastard.

1105
01:31:14,636 --> 01:31:16,555
So, yes, my old friend...

1106
01:31:19,725 --> 01:31:21,685
I'd say you got what you deserved.

1107
01:32:16,531 --> 01:32:17,491
Father?

1108
01:32:20,994 --> 01:32:23,288
Today is a special day,

1109
01:32:23,288 --> 01:32:27,793
and Mother and Sue
have prepared you a special present.

1110
01:32:27,793 --> 01:32:30,921
Goodness, what is this?

1111
01:32:30,921 --> 01:32:34,299
- It's our marriage license, Will.
- What?

1112
01:32:34,299 --> 01:32:37,552
Thirty-four years ago,
I put my mark on it.

1113
01:32:38,345 --> 01:32:39,554
And now...

1114
01:33:17,676 --> 01:33:19,261
"Anne Shakespeare."

1115
01:33:22,055 --> 01:33:24,141
You have a beautiful hand.

1116
01:33:26,309 --> 01:33:29,688
Sue is teaching me how to write also.

1117
01:33:29,688 --> 01:33:32,065
And by the time you are better,

1118
01:33:32,065 --> 01:33:35,026
I shall have written you a poem.

1119
01:33:35,026 --> 01:33:38,530
Well, you will need...

1120
01:33:38,530 --> 01:33:39,656
a penknife.

1121
01:33:40,907 --> 01:33:42,075
This is for you.

1122
01:33:46,204 --> 01:33:47,205
Thank you.

1123
01:33:48,832 --> 01:33:52,085
And what should you like
to do today, Father,

1124
01:33:52,085 --> 01:33:54,004
on this special day?

1125
01:33:56,006 --> 01:34:01,636
I know a bank
where the wild thyme blows,

1126
01:34:02,721 --> 01:34:05,390
Where oxlips
and the nodding violet grows,

1127
01:34:05,390 --> 01:34:09,186
Quite over-canopied
with luscious Woodbine,

1128
01:34:09,186 --> 01:34:12,606
With sweet musk-roses
and with eglantine:

1129
01:34:12,606 --> 01:34:18,278
There sleeps Titania
sometimes of the night,

1130
01:34:18,278 --> 01:34:22,908
Lull'd in these flowers
with dances and delight...

1131
01:34:27,162 --> 01:34:28,538
You probably know the rest.

1132
01:34:30,123 --> 01:34:35,754
And there the snake
throws her enamell'd skin,

1133
01:34:35,754 --> 01:34:39,007
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in

1134
01:35:10,956 --> 01:35:15,794
Fear no more the heat 0' the sun,

1135
01:35:17,212 --> 01:35:20,549
Nor the furious winter's rages;

1136
01:35:22,008 --> 01:35:27,222
Thou thy worldly task hast done,

1137
01:35:27,222 --> 01:35:30,642
Home art gone,

1138
01:35:30,642 --> 01:35:32,561
and ta' en thy wages...

1139
01:35:34,271 --> 01:35:39,401
Golden lads and girls all must,

1140
01:35:39,401 --> 01:35:43,947
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

1141
01:35:48,910 --> 01:35:53,957
Fear no more the frown 0' the great;

1142
01:35:55,208 --> 01:35:58,795
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;

1143
01:36:00,255 --> 01:36:04,634
Care no more to clothe and eat;

1144
01:36:04,634 --> 01:36:07,846
To thee the reed is as the oak:

1145
01:36:09,764 --> 01:36:14,936
The sceptre, learning, physic, must

1146
01:36:14,936 --> 01:36:19,274
All follow this, and come to dust.

1147
01:36:23,862 --> 01:36:26,781
Fear no more the lightning flash,

1148
01:36:27,991 --> 01:36:30,827
Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone;

1149
01:36:32,245 --> 01:36:36,124
Fear not slander, censure rash;

1150
01:36:37,459 --> 01:36:40,837
Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:

1151
01:36:42,297 --> 01:36:46,468
All lovers young, all lovers must

1152
01:36:46,468 --> 01:36:50,305
Consign to thee, and come to dust.