Creating TNT's ‘Will:’ Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited
Folger Shakespeare Library
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🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's morning, sometime around the year 1590 in Stratford upon Avon. |
| 0:05.2 | A young writer and sometimes actor is getting ready to leave for London as his sleeping son wakes up. |
| 0:11.1 | Dad. |
| 0:11.8 | Good morrow, Prince Hamlet. |
| 0:14.6 | Why don't tell the stories, Papa? |
| 0:18.2 | Ah. |
| 0:20.6 | Then I will leave Queen Mab with me. |
| 0:23.6 | What's she? |
| 0:25.6 | She is a fairy, no bigger than a nat. |
| 0:28.6 | And night by night, she creeps into boys' ears and tells stories of... |
| 0:34.6 | What? |
| 0:36.6 | Dragons. |
| 0:38.3 | Aye. |
| 0:40.3 | Dragons. |
| 0:42.3 | Can you be satisfied with Mab till I return? |
| 0:46.3 | If you hear echoes of the young father's future in that tender family moment, you're not mistaken. From the Folger of Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folger's director. |
| 1:06.4 | What you just heard is from the opening scene of the pilot episode of a new TV series that |
| 1:11.4 | has just premiered on the cable channel TNT. The series is called Will. And as |
| 1:17.8 | you've probably figured out by now, it tells stories derived from what's |
| 1:21.6 | commonly known as Shakespeare's Lost Years, the time before he made a name for |
| 1:26.1 | himself as a writer. The series takes advantage |
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