I Hold You Up a Glass
- Synopsis
- Radio talk by T. S. Gregory, President of the Aquinas Society and Editor of the Dublin Review, who regards Hamlet primarily as a play about acting. According to the Radio Times programme notes, Gregory holds Hamlet to be Shakespeare’s "first full essay in realism", marking "a crisis in Shakespeare’s development that resulted in his creating a new type of drama".
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 29 Jun 1949 at 20:30 (Channel: BBC Third Programme)
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Availability
- No archive copy known
Credits
- Contributor
- T. S. Gregory
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Hamlet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- A written version of the broadcast was published by T. S. Gregory under the same title in The Listener vol. 42, 7 July 1949, pp. 19-21.
- History
- The programme was broadcast in relation to the transmission of the play on 28 June (a production with John Gielgud in the title role, originally broadcast on 26 December 1948).
The broadcast was repeated on the next day, forming part of several Hamlet programmes being transmitted on BBC that week.
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "I Hold You Up a Glass". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av66793 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)