The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

In 1606, less than a year after the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare was undoubtedly influenced by Guy Fawkes ... and the Gunpowder Plot is the most famous of the plots against King James’s life ...

Narrator: Shakespeare ... famous examples - but there’s echoes in his work of folk tales and even pamphlets handed out on Elizabethan streets. Ultimately Shakespeare was interested in people ...