The Bishop has preached at a service to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death attended by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, Patron of Shakespeare’s Globe. The services was a joint celebration between the Globe and Southwark Cathedral and was held in Shakespeare’s workplace parish of Southwark.

The specially curated service drew on extracts of Shakespeare’s four late plays – Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest – and included a performance by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral of a specially commissioned setting of Psalm 46 by Philip Moore.

The service was one of a number of events marking the anniversary, with activities in and around Shakespeare’s Globe including brand new short films of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays being screened along the riverbank.

You can read the Bishop’s full sermon here