Blaming the Bard
LL the best ingredients of a really thrilling serial came to light in "Meet the Travellers,’ from the BBC series,
Travellers’ Tales. Most exciting of all was the description of a blood-curdling encounter with.real live vampires; and when the travellers reached the top of the Highest Waterfall in the world it only needed a slight suggestion that someone was about te push someone else over the edge to have me waiting avidly on the next episode. However, nothing of the sort happened, and I contented ~ myself with roundly condemning adventure serials in general, and the father of all of them in particular, Look at his Macbeth-witches, any. number of murders, a drunken humorist, a somnambulist, and pseude-historical information, about the origins of military camouflage. Think how it would go in a serial ("What have the Weird Sisters to say to Macbeth this time? Listen again next Thursday for another thrilling instalment, etc."). Or even Hamlet ("What will be the outcome of the duel? Do not miss the concluding instalment of this gripping serial"). Any. modern serial writer, however, knows better than to leave his stage littered with corpses; he marries ’em off. So I don’t really know that we can blame the Bard entirely for present-day trends;-at any rate for "stagey trash’’ give me Shakespeare . every time. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 10
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220Blaming the Bard New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 10
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