Road to Dunsinane, The
- Synopsis
- Radio work written by Michael Innes that speculates in dramatic form the historical circumstances that might have induced Shakespeare to write Macbeth. The first part of the programme presents the historical Macbeth who visits Rome in order to obtain an interview with Pope Leo IX. The second part focuses on ‘The Poet’s Mind’. According to Radio Times programme notes, "Innes supposes that in 1599 Shakespeare was in Edinburgh with Laurence Fletcher’s company; that he there met William Drummond of Hawthornden, a precociously learned child of fourteen; and that since the Kirk sessions had banned Romeo and Juliet a new play had to be written at short notice" (10 November 1950, p. 41). Scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth are played by Oliver Burt and Grizelda Hervey, passages from Holinshed’s Chronicles are read by Howieson Cuff and Carleton Hobbs reads the author’s commentary.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Availability
- No archive copy found
- Notes
- The part of the young laird of Hawthornden was played by fourteen-year-old Ian Gloag, a pupil at the Herriot Hospital, Edinburgh.
A BBC recording. - Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Producer
- Rayner Heppenstall
- Writer
- Michael Innes
- Contributor
- Carleton Hobbs; Howieson Culff
- Cast
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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