Being Shakespeare

Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow Being Shakespeare is a oneman show about the life and work of the worlds 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 Shakespeares life from his birth in StratforduponAvon in 1564 to his burial there fiftytwo years later Weaving together this story with extracts from many of Shakespeares 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 plays 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