Henry VI. Part 1

Synopsis: Recording of Henry VI. Part 1 by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Richard Marquand is Henry.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Year of release: 1961
Availability: Out of Distribution (2006)

Director

George Rylands

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Thurston Dart

Cast

Richard Marquand	King Henry VI
Peter Orr	Richard Plantagenet, later Duke of York
David King (2)	Duke of Gloucester
William Devlin	Sir John Talbot, later Earl of Shrewsbury
Freda Dowie	Joan la Pucelle
Anthony Arlidge	Basset
Brian Batchelor	Mayor of London
Cyril Luckham	Edmund Mortimer
David Buck	Bastard of Orléans
David Rowe-Beddoe	Vernon
Frank Duncan	Earl of Warwick
Gary Watson	Duke of Suffolk (William de la Pole)
Gordon Gardner	John, Talbot’s son
John Barton	General
John Hopkins (2)	Duke of Burgundy
John Nettleton	Sir John Falstaff
John Shrapnel	Sir William Lucy
Mary Morris	Margaret, daughter of King Reignier
Patrick Garland	Charles, Dauphin of France
Raymond Clarke	Sir William Glansdale
Ronald Grey	Shepherd
Terrence Hardiman	Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley	Reignier, Duke of Anjou
Yvonne Bonnamy	Countess of Auvergne

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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