Henry V

Synopsis: A reading of the play by the Marlowe Dramatic Society with Gary Watson as Henry.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Year of release: 1961
Availability: Out of distribution (2006)

Director

Writer

Cast

Gary Watson	King Henry V
William Squire	Chorus
John Barton	Archbishop of Canterbury
Micheline Samuels	Katherine
Anthony White	Dauphin
Andrew Parkes	Macmorris
Corin Redgrave	Duke of Bourbon
Corin Redgrave	Lord Rambures
Corin Redgrave	Earl of Grandpre
David Rowe-Beddoe	Sir Thomas Grey
Denis McCarthy	Duke of Exeter
Derek Jacobi	Ambassador
Derek Jacobi	Duke of Britain
Donald Beves	Earl of Westmoreland
Dudley Jones	Fluellen
Frank Duncan	Constable of France
Frank Duncan	Montjoy
George Rylands	Duke of Burgundy
Giles Slaughter	Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham
Ian McKellen	Jamy
Ian McKellen	John of Lancaster (Duke of Bedford)
John Perceval	Bishop of Ely
John Tracy-Phillips	Duke of York
John Tracy-Phillips	Duke of Orleans
Jonathan Sharpe	Boy (Falstaff’s page)
Julian Curry	Duke of Gloucester
Michael Burrell	John Bates
Peter Foster	Richard, Earl of Cambridge
Peter Orr	Earl of Salisbury
Peter Orr	Alexander Court
Philip Strick	Sir Thomas Erpingham
Prunella Scales	Alice
Roger Hammond	Governor of Harfleur
Suzanne Fuller	Queen Isabel
Terrence Hardiman	King Charles VI of France
Tony Church	Pistol
Trevor Nunn	Gower
Vivienne Chatterton	Hostess, formerly Mistress Quickly

Textual information: The recordings used Dover Wilson’s New Cambridge text.
Reviews: For an assessment of the sound recordings from Arkangel, the Marlowe Society (Rylands) and the Caedmon Shakespeare Recording Society (Sackler) see Lanier, Douglas ‘Shakespeare on the Record’ in Hodgdon, Barbara & Worthen, W.B. (eds) A Companion to Shakespeare in Performance (Malden: Blackwell, 2005), pp415-436

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