Learning on ScreenMuch Ado About Nothing
- Synopsis
- Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society, with Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud as Beatrice and Benedick.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Audio
- Year of release
- 1960
- Availability
- Out of Distribution (2005)
Credits
- Director
- George Rylands
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre company
- Marlowe Dramatic Society
- Production type
- Sound Recordings(Commercial)
- Plays
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- performances; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Series reviewed by Rex Gibson, TES Friday 22/5/98, p. 38.
- General
- It has been assumed that the tenor, Peter Pears, takes the part of Balthasar singing ``Sign no more, ladies, sigh no more’ ‘Act II iii .
- Textual information
- The recordings used Dover Wilson’s New Cambridge text.
- Documentation
- Sleeve notes contain background to the play and the characters.
- Reviews
- For an assessment of the sound recordings from Arkangel, the Marlowe Society (Rylands) and the Caedmon Shakespeare Recording Society (Sackler) see Lanier, Douglas ‘Shakespeare on the Record’ in Hodgdon, Barbara & Worthen, W.B. (eds) A Companion to Shakespeare in Performance (Malden: Blackwell, 2005), pp415-436
Production Company
- Name
Argo
Sponsor
- Name
The British Council
- Web
- http://www.britcoun.org External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7930 8466
- Fax
- 020 7389 6347
- Address
- 10 Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN
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
Distributor
- Name
Polygram Spoken Word, tel 020 8910 5000
- Phone
- 020 8910 5000
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Retail outlets
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