Learning on ScreenHenry V
- Alternative title
- The Shakespeare Plays
- Synopsis
- Television production with David Gwillim in the title role.
- Series
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain; United States
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 18 Jun 1979
- Transmission details
- 23 Dec 1979 at 19:15 (Channel: BBC2)
- Duration
- 170 mins
Credits
- Director
- David Giles
- Producer
- Cedric Messina
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- David Lloyd-Jones
- Costume
- Odette Barrow
- Art Direction
- Don Homfray
- Contributor
- Alan Shallcross
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Historical period
- Medieval
- Plays
- Henry V
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- drama in English; performances; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Henry V
Notes
- Notes
- The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
- History
- This production is part of the second season (producer: Cedric Messina). Recording took place in eight days.
- Textual information
- The Oxford Shakespeare edition of the complete works (2nd edition, 2005, gen. ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor) does not include a Duke of Bedford in the list of dramatis personae. Historically, the Duke of Bedford (Prince John of Lancaster in 2 Henry IV) was not at Agincourt, and in the Oxford edition his lines are given to his brothers, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Clarence.
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).
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Name
Time-Life Films Inc
- Phone
- 0101 201 843 4545
- Address
- PO Box 644
NJ 07652
USA
Distributor
- Name
BBC Store
- Web
- https://store.bbc.com/ External site opens in new window
- Notes
- NB. From May 2017 programmes are no longer available to buy on BBC Store. From November 1st 2017 the store will close completely and programmes bought from BBC Store will no longer be available to watch. Customers who have bought items from BBC Store will be contacted by email and refunded for their purchases either by full cash refund or Amazon video vouchers.
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