Learning on ScreenTake Your Choice: Twelfth Night
- Synopsis
- Act 1, Scene 5 of Twelfth Night is played first in modern English pronounciation and then in what is conjectured to be Elizabethan English. In the Elizabethan version the women’s parts are spoken by male actors. F. G. Blandford, who did a production of the play in Elizabethan English at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge, supervised the rehearsals for this broadcast.
- Series
- Experimental Hour
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 6 Dec 1937 at 22:00 (Channel: BBC National Programme)
- Duration
- 30 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Barbara Burnham; Mary Hope Allen
- Contributor
- F. G. Blandford
- Cast
Nancy Hornsby Viola (later disguised as Cesario) Stanley Axham Olivia Carleton Hobbs Malvolio Dorothy Tetley Maria Robin Maule Maria
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Twelfth Night
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elizabethan English
Notes
- General
- The reproduction of Elizabethan speech is based upon F. G. Blanford’s linguistic research. For more information see the article "As Shakespeare Heard It", Radio Times ( December 3, 1937, p. 16).
- Textual information
- A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
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
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