RECORDINGS OF SHAKESPEARE
All Plays To Be Issued
School children as well as older students and actors will soon have t a new aid to the study of Shakespeare. The plays and poems are *' being recorded in full and it is hoped that most of the recordings will be ready by 1964, the 400th anniversary of the dramatist's -. birth. The British Council, which is sponsoring this undertaking, says that three plays (“Othello,” “As • You Like It,” and “Troilus nnd Cressida”) will be available on March 17 this year, and a further set of three (“Julius Caesar,” • “Coriolanus,” and “Richard IT”) will be issued in June. It is hoped to issue four plays a year in the . future. Orders for recordings have already come from universities as far apart as Vancouver and Hong Kong. The recordings are being made by the Marlowe Society of Cambridge University for issue on i 12in long-playing records by the Argo Record Company in association with the Cambridge Univer- * sity Press.—(United Kingdom Information Service).
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 10
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