UCB Professor Emeritus Hugh Richmond has degrees from Cambridge (UK) and Oxford (UK), with diplomas from the Universities of Munich (Germany) and Florence (Italy). His books cover love poetry, landscape poetry, Milton, Shakespeare’s comedies and histories, and the stage history of Shakespeare. He has personally staged forty Renaissance plays, edited two Shakespeare histories. He has produced video documentaries about Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, and helped rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, where he staged Much Ado.