Her Majesty Desires, Master Shakespeare ...!
- Synopsis
- Radio play arranged and produced by Peter Creswell. Scenes from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor are introduced by a prologue involving Shakespeare (Anthony Shaw), Queen Elizabeth (Galdys Young) and Chistopher Hatton (Noel Dryden). Elsie and Doris Water perform as Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 21 Nov 1943 at 21:30 (Channel: BBC Home Service)
- Duration
- 75 mins
- Availability
- No copy extant
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Creswell
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Adaptor for Radio
- Peter Creswell
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Plays
- Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- General
- The sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were best known to listeners for their Cockney characters ‘Gert and Daisy’. The female radio and stage variety double-act appeared on the BBC radio variety wartime programme Workers’ Playtime, where the sisters would discuss their fictional husbands Bert and Wally.
- Textual information
- A written transcript of the production is held at the Birmingham Central Library as part of their Shakespeare Collection.
- Reviews
- Herbert Farjeon reviews this production and comments on the Shakespearean ‘interjections’ and matters of pronounciation in The Listener, ‘Shakespeare on Shakespeare’ (25 November 1943, p. 620).
Source: The Times, Radio Times
Production Company
- Name
BBC
- Notes
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Her Majesty Desires, Master Shakespeare ...!". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70636 (Accessed 20 Sep 2024)