Brian Bedford’s hugely effective one-man show is definitely both an actor’s celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship or grant. Bedford explores the feelings and mindset behind Shakespeare the person, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. In amusing, enlightening, and persuasive style-and with the use of quotes from several of Shakespeare’s sonnets, narrative poems, and plays-Bedford uncovers the tragic, the comic, as well as the passionate guise of probably our greatest & most revered playwright. Within this recording, Bedford includes choices from your Tempest, As YOU PREFER It, Love’s Labour’s Shed, A Midsummer Night’s Fantasy, Hamlet, Henry VI, Twelfth Evening, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, King Lear, The Winter’s Story, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, and Richard II.

A CBC Broadcast Center solo performance featuring Brian Bedford.

Recorded in front of a live audience on the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto in March of 1995.