United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: 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. ...A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets ( A Waste Of Shame: William Shakespeare )
