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ShakespeaRe-Told
This autumn across the 91Èȱ¬
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This autumn, the 91Èȱ¬ brings Shakespeare and
his stories to audiences with a variety of new
programmes and initiatives across its
services – television, radio, online and interactive.
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Shakespeare on Radio 4
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Shakespeare Stories
14 to 18 November, 3.30 to 3.45pm
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Five great actors, including Simon
Russell Beale and Prunella Scales, read
extracts from five different sources
that inspired five of Shakespeare's
plays.
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Each story is introduced by
Shakespeare scholar Dr. Carol Rutter,
who is Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Warwick
University.
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Each day Carol takes a different
source and a different play and in her
introduction puts it into context and
describes how Shakespeare
transformed the material.
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Monday - Othello
Taken from Italian writer Gerald
Cinthio's Hecatommithi, Simon Russell
Beale reads the story of the Moor of
Venice, his bitter jealousy and a
desperate tragedy launched in the
tangled folds of a handkerchief.
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Tuesday - The Winter's Tale
Robert Greene's prose romance
Pandosto was the source for The
Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's
most complex plays.
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Gerard Murphy reads this story of sexual jealousy
and social unrest that will only be
resolved when "that which is lost, is
found".
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Wednesday - Measure For Measure
George Whetstone's Promos and
Cassandra was taken and transformed
by Shakespeare when he wrote
Measure For Measure.
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Claire Skinner reads this story of corrupt justice,
hypocrisy and social sleaze.
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Thursday - Macbeth
Shakespeare found the bloody story
of Macbeth, his wife and the Weird
Sisters in Raphael Holished's
Chronicles Of England, Scotland and
Wales.
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It is read by Stephen Boxer.
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Friday - Romeo And Juliet
Prunella Scales reads an extract from
Arthur Brooke's long poem The
Tragicall Historye Of Romeus And Juliet,
the first English account of the starcross'd
lovers.
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Produced by
Claudine Toutoungi.
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