Learning on ScreenDanish Tragedy, The
- Synopsis
- Radio drama by Michael Innes, attempting to reconstruct the Ur-Hamlet, a lost play possibly written by Thomas Kyd, believed to be the immediate source of Hamlet. As Innes writes: "Basically ... I have tried to imagine what Hamlet would be like in a primitive stage of its dramatic development and presented in verse which exhibits at least some of the formal elements of the verse of The Spanish Tragedy". With Carleton Hobbs as Kyd, Charles Hodgson as Shakespeare and William Devlin as Hamlet.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Availability
- Unknown
- Notes
- Michael Innes is the pseudonym for Scottish writer and academic J.I.M. Stewart.
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William; Literary Sources; Literary adaptation
Credits
- Producer
- Rayner Heppenstall
- Writer
- J. I. M. Stewart; Michael Innes
- Cast
Carleton Hobbs Charles Brodie Charles Hodgson Geoffrey Wincott John Wood (2) Laidman Browne Marjorie Westbury Norman Shelley Richard Hurndall William Devlin
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 206 times.
