Hugh Macrae Richmond, Professor Emeritus of English at the
University of California, Berkeley, came to the Bay Area in 1957.
He holds a B.A. degree from Cambridge University (U.K.) and a D.
Phil. from Oxford University (U.K.). He has taught in a French
lycée at Lyon and studied at the Universities of Florence and
Munich. He initiated the U.C. Shakespeare Forum (a system-wide
research unit), and heads the Shakespeare Program at U.C.B., which
produces and explores the historical staging of the plays of
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as versions of Milton's
"Paradise Lost" and "Comus." He was an advisor for the
reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre near its original
London site, completed in 1997, and later was the Director of its
U.S.A. Education Division. In Shakespeare studies, he has written:
"Shakespeare's Political Plays" and "Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy";
performance histories of "Richard III" and "Henry VIII”; editions
of "Henry IV, Part 1" and ""Henry VIII" ; "Shakespeare
Illuminations" (essays in honor of Marvin Rosenberg); and "Critical
Studies of 'King Richard III'." He has critical bibliographies on
"Shakespeare and the Renaissance Stage" and "Shakespeare's Theatre:
A Dictionary of his Stage Context." He has a study of "John Milton,
The Christian Revolutionary," and books about European poetry: "The
School of Love," "Renaissance Landscapes," and "Puritans and
Libertines." He has produced video documentaries via Films for the
Humanities: “Shakespeare and the Globe,” “Milton By Himself,” and
“A Prologue to Chaucer." Another, distributed by TMW Media:
"Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Restored," covers his staging of "Much
Ado" on the restored Globe stage in London. His most recent video
documentary via TMW Media is: "Shakespeare, California, & the
Spanish Connection," including an early California play, "Los
Pastores" by Florencio Ibañez. This material is consolidated on the
web at: http//shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/ (HMR 11/09)