A Life of Shakespeare
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A Life of Shakespeare
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Narrated by:
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Simon Russell Beale
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David Timson
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Daniel Philpott
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Caroline Faber
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Written by:
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Hesketh Pearson
About this listen
Editorial Reviews
A short life of Shakespeare is particularly appropriate, given how little hard fact is knowable; this one is brief but particularly well suited to this series' format. narrations from the plays alternate here with Elizabethan music and with interesting fact or speculation on Shakespeare's parents, his marriage, and how his characters may have sprung from his surroundings and events of the times. Pearson is particularly good on Shakespeare's relationship with his queen (he did not like being ordered to show Falstaff in love). The commentary on the plays and Elizabethan theater is wise and interesting, if not always conclusive; the narrators of the connective text and the play excerpts are marvelous. A delight.