Learning on ScreenShakespeare’s Women - Sluts and Wenches
- Alternative title
- Shakespeare’s Best Supporting Female Roles
- Synopsis
- Last in a radio series on Shakespeare’s ‘Best Supporting female roles’. Presenter Judi Herman talks to some of the women playing parts of the ‘country wenches’, such as Audrey and Phoebe from As You Like It , Mopsa and Dorcas in The Winter’s Tale and the ‘town wench’ Doll Tearsheet from Henry IV, Part 2, and also to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at the University of Greenwich. With illustrative extracts from the Derby Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Shakespeare Globe.
- Series
- Woman’s Hour
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Notes
- The programme is available to listen to at the BBC’s Woman’s Hour art theatre archive site http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_25_mon.shtml (accessed 2/2011)
- Subjects
- Drama; Shakespeare
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); women
Credits
- Contributor
- Judi Herman; Pippa Guard
- Cast
Alexia Healy Amanda Daniels Frances Ashman Ken Bradshaw Sian Rees-Williams Sophie Abelson
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
- Name
Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service
- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/offair External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7393 1514
- Fax
- 020 7393 1555
- Address
- For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ
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