The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet Audiobook (Free)

Brian Bedford’s hugely successful one-man show is normally both an actor’s celebration of Shakespeare and an act of Shakespearean scholarship. Bedford explores the feeling and psychology behind Shakespeare the person, aswell as Shakespeare the playwright. In amusing, enlightening, and persuasive style-and by using 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. With this documenting, Bedford includes choices from The Tempest, As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Henry VI, Twelfth Night, 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 functionality featuring Brian Bedford.

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