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•  Amazon Page  •This is an exclusive product!  Help us keep elib.tech all the more special for its exclusivity.  Out of respect for the original authors and publishers, please do NOT make this product freely available to those outside of our community.You will be banned if you disregard this notice.Product Description:A masterful tour de force from “one of the most distinguished performers of his generation” (The New York Times).Alone on stage, without props or costumes, Ian McKellen performs some of Shakespeare’s most striking monologues and offers his own personal anecdotes about life in the theater. From Henry VI to Macbeth, McKellen demonstrates the incredible universality of Shakespeare’s plays with wit and humor – skillfully revealing the actor behind the writer in this celebrated one-man show.Produced by Andrew Susskind and presented at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.With one sample review from Amazon — just one of the many 5-star customer reviews:Quote:This will change the way you think about Shakespeare. Just can’t praise it enough. Ian McKellen begins his excursion into the “meaning” of Shakespare by discussing his important interview for entry into Cambridge. How did he do it? By mouthing a monologue of King Henry V. Clearly, Shakespeare is very “personal” for him. As a Cambridge student, Ian McKellen acted in school plays with some other outstanding classmates devoted to theater – Trevor Nunn and Derek Jacoby, for example. Geniuses all.But it is the intimate way in which McKellen presents Shakespeare that makes this one-person-play so memorable. In one moment, Ian McKellen talks seriously about the meaning of a sonnet, then he jokes about overacting a part, then he presents a biographical fact of the Bard, then he recites both the female and the male interchange of lines, then he collapses in a death scene, and so on. It’s all so enthralling.So…if all the world’s a stage…this is theater personified.