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René Weis talks about his biography of William Shakespeare ‘Shakespeare Revealed: A biography’ and Elizabeth Schafer discusses her book, ‘Lilian Baylis: A Biography’ on the influential Shakespearean...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library, What do we know about Shakespeare’s life? This episode considers not only that question, but two others: During the past four centuries, when and how did...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Brian Cummings. Cummings argues that the biography of Shakespeare is a paradox. Is he our...
A programme about Shakespeare from the Famous Authors series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents a factual outline of the...
A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...
First of a series of five talks on Shakespeare. Robertson Davies, master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, discusses Shakespeare’s biography.
Radio broadcast. Peter Holland talks about writing the entry for Shakespeare for the new ‘Dictionary of National Biography’. Shakespeare has been allocated more words than anyone, but what is to be said?...
Episode from an interview series, hosted by Robert Cromie, and produced by Chicago education television station WTTW. Sam Schoenbaum talks about his critically acclaimed biography of Shakespeare.
Short. Biography of Shakespeare highlighting the various jobs he worked at in the theatre. Filmed as a promotion piece to the forthcoming MGM production ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) directed by Cukor.
A hypercard-based program on Shakespeare covering biography, social and cultural background, theatre and plays, and the texts themselves. Also includes over 2200 colour graphics of Renaissance life and art,...
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