Learning on ScreenKing Henry V
- Synopsis
- Televised broadcast of John Barton’s Elizabethan Theatre Company production of the play. As producer Michael MacOwan emphasises, this production "should be thought of not so much as a television production of Henry V, but as an attempt to show on the television screen the work that is being done by a group of young actors who are trying to return to the essentials of Elizabethan playing’" (Radio Times, 15 May 1953, p. 26).
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television
- Availability
- Unavailable
- Notes
- The introductory exhortions of the Chorus ("Into a thousand parts divide one man ...") seems to have been used as the principal motto for this production in which some actors played four or five roles.
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Doubling of roles
Online availability
Credits
- Producer
- John Barton; Michael MacOwan
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Art Direction
- Reece Pemberton
- Cast
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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