Learning on ScreenTake Your Choice: Twelfth Night
- Synopsis
- Act 1, Scene 5 of Twelfth Night is played first in modern English pronounciation and then in what is conjectured to be Elizabethan English. In the Elizabethan version the women’s parts are spoken by male actors. F. G. Blandford, who did a production of the play in Elizabethan English at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge, supervised the rehearsals for this broadcast.
- Series
- Experimental Hour
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elizabethan English
Credits
- Producer
- Barbara Burnham; Mary Hope Allen
- Contributor
- F. G. Blandford
- Cast
Carleton Hobbs Dorothy Tetley Harold Reese Lilian Harrison Nancy Hornsby Robin Maule Stanley Axham
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Archive
- Name
British Library Sound Archive
- listening@bl.uk
- Web
- http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7412 7676
- Fax
- 020 7412 7441
- Address
- 96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
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