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

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).

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