A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005) on Netflix
In 1609, William Shakespeare works at his sonnets while plague rages. Earlier, the Countess of Pembroke pays him to write verses urging her son William Herbert to marry, and he meets Lucie.
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William Shakespeare is struggling to complete his sonnets in 1609 while plague rages. He sees the body of a young child and remembers 1596, when he learned in London that his son Hamnet was ill. Anne, his wife, reproaches him for living in the capital. In 1597, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, gives him a bag of money for verses encouraging her son, the young William Herbert, to marry. Shakespeare meets the aristocrat and is disturbed by his attraction to the youth.
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