Measure for Measure, Or, Beauty the Best Advocate

Alternative title

Beauty the Best Advocate

Synopsis

A video recording of the stage production of Charles Gildon’s play performed by the Shakespeare Institute Players of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Recording date

24 Mar 2000

Credits

Writer

Charles Gildon

Additional Details

Theatre company

Shakespeare Institute Players

Production type

Stage Recordings

Plays

Measure for Measure

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Amateur theatre

Notes

General

`The play, by the dramatist and critic Charles Gildon, was first performed in 1700. Whilst it resembles Davenant’s Law Against Lovers, it remained more faithful to Shakespeare’s original. Gildon did, however, interpolate Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas (c. 1689) throughout the action and reduce the Duke’s role to mere narrator. The American scholar Frederick W. Kilbourne deemed the result ‘a sad mutilation’. (summary taken from RSC website).

Production Company

Name

University of Birmingham Television Services

Archive

Name

Shakespeare Institute Library

Email

silib@bham.ac.uk

Web

http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/shakespeare External site opens in new window

Phone

01789 293384

Fax

01879 292021

Address

Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6HP