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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. Barbara Bogaev talks to author Marion Turner about her book, The Wife of Bath: A Biography, and the influence Chaucer’s character had on later writers including Shakespeare.
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...
Television biography series hosted by Ann-Marie MacDonald. The documentary follows classical actor William Hutt through his much-publicised final season at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival in...
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 biography of Shakespeare’s father written and produced by David Lytton, who reconsiders the story from historical evidence. No further information known (3/2008).
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?...
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