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Includes poems such as Sylvia Plath’s ‘Morning Song’, ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas and Charlotte Mitchell’s ‘Just in Case’, and extracts from Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, Alan Bennett’s ‘The Lady in the Van’ and Alec McCowen’s ‘Young Gemini’.
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A radio dramatization of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of The Royal National Theatre. The sleeve notes include a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, and an essay on interpretation from the producer.Amazon.co.uk Review
This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein’s smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann’s postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between “Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona”, the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young “star-crossed lovers” and their “death-marked love” creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo’s lyrical account of Juliet–”she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare’s other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare’s finest early dramatic creations–Romeo’s sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose “plague o’ both your houses” begins the play’s descent into tragedy, “For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”. –Jerry Brotton
Romeo and Juliet: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Douglas Henshall & Cast
Categories: BBC Books Tags: Cast, Douglas, Dramatisation, Fullcast, Henshall, Juliet, Radio, Romeo, Starring
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From 1952 to 1960, the Goons, the most celebrated clowns in the history of radio, ruled the airwaves. This title presents 4 episodes of the archive radio comedy, which are: ‘The Case of the Missing Heir’ (11/1/55), ‘The Secret Escritoire’ (27/9/55), ‘The Pam’s Paper Insurance Policy’ (24/11/58), and ‘The Dreaded Piano Clubber’ (26/12/86).
