Measure for Measure

Alternative title: The Shakespeare Plays
Synopsis: Television production of the play starring Kenneth Colley as Duke, Tim Pigott-Smith as Angelo and Kate Nelligan as Isabella.
Series: BBC Television Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 17 May 1978
Transmission details: 18 Feb 1979 at 20:05 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 145 mins

Director

Desmond Davis

Producer

Cedric Messina

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

David Lloyd-Jones; London Early Music Group

Costume

Odette Barrow

Art Direction

Stuart Walker

Contributor

Alan Shallcross

Cast

Notes: The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
History: This production was part of the first season (producer: Cedric Messina). Recording took six days.
Textual information: Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers.
Reviews: Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

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