Results
20 results found for '"Literary adaptation"' in Keywords.
Seven Ages of Man, The (2008 Radio)
- Series
- Words and Music
- Producer
- Elizabeth Arno
The festival edition of Words and Music is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It, through the words of Blake and the Mersey Sound, Marlowe and Raleigh,...
Julia Pascal - The Merchant of Venice (2007 Radio)
- Series
- Woman’s Hour
Radio broadcast. Presenter Jane Little interviews the Jewish playwright Julia Pascal about her adaptation of The Merchant of Venice at the Arcola Theatre in London. In Pascal’s version, holocaust survivor...
Tom Stoppard (1998 Television)
- Series
- Charlie Rose Show, The
US interview show hosted by Charlie Rose. Tom Stoppard talks about SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - the process, screenwriting, the ways in which he incorporated Shakespeare into the film, the problems of adaptations,...
Shakespeare and the Storytellers (1987 Audio)
Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...
Shakespeare’s King Harry (1977)
Radio broadcast accompanying Dickon Reed’s 6 one-hour adaptation of Henry IV and Henry V. John Wain, author of ‘The Living World of Shakespeare’ (1978), actor Alan Howard and Michael Billington, drama...
Danish Tragedy, The (1958 Radio)
- Producer
- Rayner Heppenstall
Radio drama by Michael Innes, attempting to reconstruct the Ur-Hamlet, a lost play possibly written by Thomas Kyd, believed to be the immediate source of Hamlet. As Innes writes: "Basically ... I have tried...
Cymbeline Refinished (1951 Radio)
- Producer
- Wilfrid Grantham
Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Produced by Wilfrid Grantham. Richard Hutton narrates. With music composed and conducted by...
Foreword to ‘Cymbeline Refinished’ (1951 Radio)
Radio broadcast of G.B. Shaw’s Foreword to his rewriting of Act V of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (Cymbeline Refinished, 1937). Read by Noel Illif.
Preface to ‘The Tempest’, A (1950 Radio)
Radio talk broadcast as a preface to a transmission of Dryden/Davenant’s adaptation of The Tempest revised for the musical stage by Thomas Shadwell (see separate entry). W. W. Robson, Fellow of Lincoln...
Lady of Belmont, The (1933 Radio)
- Series
- Sequels
- Producer
- Cyril Wood
Radio play written by St. John G. Ervine and adapted for broadcasting by Cyril Wood. Devised as a sequel to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, it takes place 10 years after the date of Antonio’s trial...