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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, BEING SHAKESPEARE is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, and taking its cue from Jacques’ famous ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech in As You Like It, the drama traces Shakespeare’s life from his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 to his burial there fifty-two years later. Weaving together this story with extracts from many of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Simon Callow presents a vivid and very human portrait of the man and of the Elizabethan world in which he lived. Recorded before an audience during the play’s triumphant London run, BEING SHAKESPEARE is both a wonderful introduction to the author and a richly nuanced, funny and fascinating study for those who already love his plays
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Simon Callow
Originally produced by Illuminations Media in 2012
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English