Robert Speaight Totally Explained

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Robert Speaight (1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight the puppeteer. He was an early performer (from 1927) in radio plays. He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. He went on to Shakespearean roles, and to direct.
He also wrote criticism and essays, works on the theatre and biography. He was a Roman Catholic convert, and biographer of Hilaire Belloc and Eric Gill. In the case of Gill, a personal friend, he suppressed material about Gill's sexual interests, which would only come out in the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy.

Works

Mutinous Wind (1932)
The Lost Hero (1934) novel
Legend of Helena Vaughan (1936) novel
The Angel in the Mist (1936)
St. Thomas of Canterbury (1938)
Acting: its idea and tradition (1939)
The Unbroken Heart (1939)
Juvenile Drama. The History of the English Toy Theatre (1946)
Since 1939 - Drama, the Novel, Poetry, Prose Literature (1949) with John Hayward, Henry Reed, Stephen Spender – earlier as pamphlet Drama Since 1939 (1947)
George Eliot (1954)
William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival (1954)
The History of the English Puppet Theatre (1955)
Nature in Shakespearian Tragedy (1955)
Life of Hilaire Belloc (1957)
Letters from Hilaire Belloc (1958) editor
Christian Theatre (1960) volume 124 in the 20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism
William Rothenstein: The Portrait of an Artist in His Time (1962)
Ronald Knox: The Priest, The Writer (1965) with Thomas Corbishley
The Life of Eric Gill (1966)
Teilhard de Chardin: A Biography (1967)
Teilhard de Chardin: Re-Mythologization.Three Papers (1970) with Robert V. Wilshire and J. V. Langmead Casserly
Vanier : Soldier, Diplomat and Governor General : A Biography (1970) on Georges Vanier
The Property Basket. Recollections of a Divided Life (1970) autobiography
A Bridges-Adams Letter Book (1971) editor
Essays by Divers Hands Vol. XXXVII (1972) editor
Shakespeare on the Stage; an Illustrated History of Shakespearian Performance (1973)
Georges Bernanos: A Study of the Man and the Writer (1974)
The companion guide to Burgundy (1975)
Francois Mauriac: A Study of the Writer and the Man (1976)
Shakespeare - the Man and his Achievement (1977)

Recordings

Thomas a-Becket's Sermon from Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot)

Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot)

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