The Other Playwrights
POWER failure at 1YC made me give up listening to the NZBS Much Ado About Nothing last Sunday, after a determined effort to follow Beatrice and Benedict through a thorny forest of static. So, missing my weekly play, I was left meditating upon why, when the NZBS adapts verse-drama, Shakespeare is invariably selected, and
his contemporafies and successors so completely neglected. Every radio play I hear convinces me that verse-drama is the ideal type for broadcasting. And in the plays of Peele, Greene, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Massinger and Ford is enough magnificent poetry and high drama to make Christopher sound like a young fry of treachery, The busy NZBS play-parers «could reduce these works to manageable radio proportions, streamline them, and so introduce to 1YC listeners the riches of the greatest period in British drama. No copyright problems, and the finest script-writers of them all ripe for the plucking. What do they know of Shakespeare who only
Shakespeare know?
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 24
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165The Other Playwrights New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 24
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