'Great Desire I Had, The’: Shakespeare and Italy
- Synopsis
- Radio play written by Henry Reed and produced for broadcasting by Douglas Cleverdon. Set in Italy in 1593, this dramatic speculation sends William Shakespeare (Marius Goring) to Ferrara, Verona, Padua, Venice, and Mantua in the early 1590s and has him involved with a brilliant commedia dell’arte troupe, the Gelosi. Narrated by Henry Reed.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Availability
- Unknown
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- biographies; Commedia dell’Arte; Italy; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Producer
- Douglas Cleverdon
- Writer
- Henry Reed
- Contributor
- Henry Reed
- Cast
Arthur Young Carleton Hobbs David Page David Spenser Diana Maddox Flora Robson Frank Duncan Henry Reed Jeremy Spenser John Phillips Marius Goring Neville Hartley Vida Hope
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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