Here, Shakespeare faces new challenges as he grapples with the story of his own life and sets out to resolve its final chapter. In postwar Britain, Stevens gets a letter from Miss Kenton and decides to seek her out.Īfter London’s Globe Theatre burns to the ground in 1613, William Shakespeare stops writing and returns to his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, much to the surprise of his family members, who he has neglected for two decades. Overseeing the running of the great house, Stevens is joined by housekeeper Miss Kenton. Mr Stevens is butler to Lord Darlington, who in the years leading up to the Second World War had great sympathy with Germany and hoped to retain the peace between Britain and the Nazis. For Parrish, Susan and the rest of his family, the consequences of this romance are profound, complicated and bittersweet, for Joe Black is the personification of death.
Media tycoon William Parrish has his charmed life and orderly household disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic young man who proceeds to fall in love with Parrish’s beautiful daughter, Susan. Latest issues of our independent film magazines now available at .ukĭisappearing soon … catch them while you can! ( Available until 13th May 2022….) FILM STORIES & FILM STORIES JUNIOR MAGAZINES
