Robert Speaight
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Robert William Speaight , the puppeteer.
Speaight studied under
Shakespearean roles and to direct. He played the title role in the first broadcast in 1941-42 of the radio drama The Man Born to Be King
.
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 come out only in the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy
.
He married the Welsh actress Evelyn Bowen, with whom he had a son; they separated in 1939. Evelyn later married the celebrated Irish writer Frank O'Connor, with whom she had three children.
Works
- Mutinous Wind (1932)
- The Lost Hero (1934) novel
- Nurse Cavell (1934) play, role of the German spy in C.S. Forester's play about the life of Edith Cavell
- 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)
- 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) "The English Novelists series"
- William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival (1954)
- 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 Casserley
- 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)
- François Mauriac: A Study of the Writer and the Man (1976)
- Shakespeare - the Man and his Achievement (1977)
Recordings
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock[3](T. S. Eliot)
- The Hollow Men (T. S. Eliot)
- The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
- Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot)
- Thomas a-Becket's Sermon from Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot)
- Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot)
Filmography
- London 1942 (1943) - narrator
References
- ^ Speaight, Robert William; Oxford DNB
- ^ ‘Fogie – The Life (1865-1945) of Elsie Fogerty Pioneer of speech training for the theatre and everyday life’, Marion Cole (Peter Davis, London, 1967)
- ^ "The Waste Land (And other T.S.Eliot Works)". Spotify.
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