Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays

by Andrea Smith

Taking you inside Shakespeare's plays on the radio - how they sound and how they change and evolve - Andrea Smith provides an innovative history of Shakespearean performance. Based on meticulous new research using documentary evidence and archive audio recordings, Smith explores what it means to present Shakespeare as audio and how this can help us to gain a greater understanding of the plays themselves and the art of performing them. The BBC's remit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399547267
• ISBN13: 9781399547260
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages