Shakespeare’s Women - Sluts and Wenches

Alternative title: Shakespeare’s Best Supporting Female Roles
Synopsis: Last in a radio series on Shakespeare’s ‘Best Supporting female roles’. Presenter Judi Herman talks to some of the women playing parts of the ‘country wenches’, such as Audrey and Phoebe from As You Like It , Mopsa and Dorcas in The Winter’s Tale and the ‘town wench’ Doll Tearsheet from Henry IV, Part 2, and also to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at the University of Greenwich. With illustrative extracts from the Derby Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Shakespeare Globe.
Series: Woman’s Hour
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Jun 2007 at 10:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration: 10 mins

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Notes: The programme is available to listen to at the BBC’s Woman’s Hour art theatre archive site http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_25_mon.shtml (accessed 2/2011)
Reviews: Source: BBC Programme information http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_25_mon.shtml (accessed 2/2011),

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