Meet the Author

Ben Crystal is an actor and writer. He studied English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, before training as an actor. He has worked in tv, film and theatre, including the 2006 season at Shakespeare’s Globe, and is a narrator for RNIB Talking Books, Channel 4 and the BBC. Clips of Ben’s acting and narration work can be seen and heard at his main website, www.bencrystal.com

He co-wrote Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin 2005) with his father, David Crystal, and websites for these books can be found via The Shakespeare Portal. He regularly gives workshops on performing and speaking Shakespeare. He lives in London.

The video below was made for the Meet The Author website. In it, Ben talks about exactly why Shakespeare on Toast is so different from all the other books on Shakespeare out there…

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