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268 - Shakespeare on Air II: The Golden Age of US Radio

from Part XXVIII - Shakespeare and Media History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Olwen Terris
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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adaptationbroadcast drama“high” and “low” culturehighbrowlowbrowradioradio audiencesremediationUSAWelles, Orson
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1922 - 1926
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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“Hamlet.” The Columbia Workshop. Dir. Welles, Orson. CBS Radio Network. 2 parts. 19 September through 14 November 1936.Google Scholar
“Hamlet.” Streamlined Shakespeare. Adapt. Barnes, Forrest and Barrymore, John. NBC Blue Radio Network. 21 June 1937.Google Scholar
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Further reading

Bretz, Andrew. “Your Master’s Voice: The Shakespearean Narrator as Intermedial Authority on 1930s American Radio.” OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation. Ed. Daniel Fischlin. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2014. 230–56.Google Scholar
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Davies, Anthony. “Shakespeare and the Media of Film, Radio and Television: A Retrospect.” Shakespeare Survey 39 (1987): 1–12. DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521327571.001.Google Scholar
Evans, Stuart. “Shakespeare on Radio.” Shakespeare Survey 39 (1987): 113–22. DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521327571.009.Google Scholar
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “Listening to Shakespeare.” Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide. Ed. Terris, Olwen, Oesterlen, Eve-Marie, and McKernan, Luke. London: British Universities Film & Video Council, 2009. 74–93.Google Scholar
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “Shakespeare Overheard: Performances, Adaptations, and Citations on Radio.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Ed. Shaughnessy, Robert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 175–98. DOI: 10.1017/CCOL9780521844291.010.Google Scholar
Jensen, Michael P. “Radio.” Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopaedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Vol. 2. Ed. Burt, Richard. Westport: Greenwood, 2007. 508–85.Google Scholar

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