Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tim Curry plays the Bard in this six-part dramatised account written by John Mortimer that follows the years Shakespeare spent in London With each episode centred around the creation of one of his plays historical facts & modern analysis are combined to explain how major events in Shakespeare&s life may have come to shape his work Episodes comprise & Dead Shepherd& & Alms for Oblivion& & Of Comfort & Despair& & The Loved Boy& & Rebellion&s Masterpiece& & & The Living Record&