SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Radio talk by David Abercrombie discussing how it might be possible to reproduce the manner in which Garrick spoke Shakespeare. Based on the information contained in Joshua Steele’s 1775 ‘Essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech, to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar symbols’, Ian Catford delivers Hamlet’s "To be or not to be" soliloquy in the manner of Garrick.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

9 Mar 1951 at 20:50 (Channel: BBC Third Programme)

Duration

20 mins

Availability

No archive copy known

Credits

Contributor

David Abercrombie

Cast

Ian Catford

Hamlet

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Garrick, David (1717-1779); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Verse speaking

Notes

Notes

A BBC recording.

Reviews

'How Garrick Spoke Shakespeare’, Radio Times, 2 March 1951, p. 9.

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)