Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- (Grass)Root and (Tree)Branch: Building Community in the Early Modern Ensemble Training Model
- Fat Ham and the Problem of Community
- Shakespeare under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within
- Mind’s Eye: Audio-described Shakespeare
- ‘The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies’: Geographical Knowledge Communities at the Inns of Court and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Music and Drama at the Early Modern Inns of Court: Twelfth Night and Hyde Park
- Reimagining the Community: A Transatlantic Tale of Two Scholars
- ‘To Be or Not to Be in Ukraine’: Ruining Shakespeare and Rebuilding Communities in H-Effect and The Hamlet Syndrome
- Red Kabuki Actors Perform Shakespeare in Occupied Japan (1945–1952): Zenshinza’s ‘Theatre for Young People’
- ‘Unrespective Boys’: The Formation and Betrayal of Child Peer Communities in Richard III
- ‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V
- ‘Necessity Has No Law’: Justice and Affective Communities in 2 Henry VI
- The BBC’s Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain’s National Identity Crises
- A Lion, an Ass, a Dog and a Wall: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Ecological Theatricality
- Hitchcock’s Hamlet
- German Hermeneutics of Racecraft in Thomas Ostermeier’s Othello (2010)
- ‘Bloody Creditor[s]’ and the Blood-Money Metaphor in The Merchant of Venice
- ‘And Now Let Me Alone to End the Tragedy’: Othello, Comedy and Candlelight in John Fletcher’s Women Pleased
- Power, Horology and Imperial Doubt: Reimagining Time in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘By the Book’: Source Study and the Plot of Romeo and Juliet
- War, Hunger and Gluttony in Shakespeare’s English Histories: Sir John Oldcastle and Jack Cade
- Some Deeper Thing: Visualizing Complexity in Hamlet through the Pyrrhus Speech
- Lucrece and Leonard Becket, 1614–1633
- Audio Shakespeare
- Thomas Middleton on BBC Radio
- John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio
- ‘Didst Thou Not Hear a Noise?’: Shakespeare with Headphones
- ‘Strike Their Sounds Together’: Radio and Television in the Teaching of Shakespeare in Twentieth-Century America
- ‘Say What Thou Seest Yond!’: Music, Spectacle and the Actor’s Voice in Audio Productions of The Tempest
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2024 London Productions, 2024
- Productions Outside London, 2024
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2023
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 78
- Index
John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey 78
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- (Grass)Root and (Tree)Branch: Building Community in the Early Modern Ensemble Training Model
- Fat Ham and the Problem of Community
- Shakespeare under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within
- Mind’s Eye: Audio-described Shakespeare
- ‘The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies’: Geographical Knowledge Communities at the Inns of Court and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Music and Drama at the Early Modern Inns of Court: Twelfth Night and Hyde Park
- Reimagining the Community: A Transatlantic Tale of Two Scholars
- ‘To Be or Not to Be in Ukraine’: Ruining Shakespeare and Rebuilding Communities in H-Effect and The Hamlet Syndrome
- Red Kabuki Actors Perform Shakespeare in Occupied Japan (1945–1952): Zenshinza’s ‘Theatre for Young People’
- ‘Unrespective Boys’: The Formation and Betrayal of Child Peer Communities in Richard III
- ‘Here’s Company’: Fractured Englishness and Conflicted Communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V
- ‘Necessity Has No Law’: Justice and Affective Communities in 2 Henry VI
- The BBC’s Television Adaptations of Henry VI and Britain’s National Identity Crises
- A Lion, an Ass, a Dog and a Wall: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Ecological Theatricality
- Hitchcock’s Hamlet
- German Hermeneutics of Racecraft in Thomas Ostermeier’s Othello (2010)
- ‘Bloody Creditor[s]’ and the Blood-Money Metaphor in The Merchant of Venice
- ‘And Now Let Me Alone to End the Tragedy’: Othello, Comedy and Candlelight in John Fletcher’s Women Pleased
- Power, Horology and Imperial Doubt: Reimagining Time in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘By the Book’: Source Study and the Plot of Romeo and Juliet
- War, Hunger and Gluttony in Shakespeare’s English Histories: Sir John Oldcastle and Jack Cade
- Some Deeper Thing: Visualizing Complexity in Hamlet through the Pyrrhus Speech
- Lucrece and Leonard Becket, 1614–1633
- Audio Shakespeare
- Thomas Middleton on BBC Radio
- John Gielgud on Air: 65 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Radio
- ‘Didst Thou Not Hear a Noise?’: Shakespeare with Headphones
- ‘Strike Their Sounds Together’: Radio and Television in the Teaching of Shakespeare in Twentieth-Century America
- ‘Say What Thou Seest Yond!’: Music, Spectacle and the Actor’s Voice in Audio Productions of The Tempest
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2024 London Productions, 2024
- Productions Outside London, 2024
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2023
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 78
- Index
Summary
Sir John Gielgud was a highly regarded Shakespearian performer on stage and screen. However, his prolific career playing Shakespeare on radio is far less celebrated. This article shows that he not only was one of the most important early radio actors, but continued to be influential throughout his life.
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- Shakespeare Survey 78Shakespeare and Communities, pp. 282 - 287Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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