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At Home
Look in your toy chest, in the attic, on your desk, in that old box under the stairs - you'll likely find a remnant of Shakespeare, whether it's finger puppets, a calendar, a children's book, or an old classic comic. (2-5)
You may even have planned a party with a Shakespearean theme, as suggested here in a magazine article during the 1964 celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. (1)
Now we watch Shakespeare on streaming video, but back in the early days of radio and television, producers loved Shakespeare as a way of legitimizing and glamorizing the new media. In the 1930s, both CBS and NBC sponsored series of radio broadcasts of Shakespeare's plays. (6) In the 1940s with the advent of television, one manufacturer used Shakespeare as a selling point for this new media: "All the world's a stage" – in your living room through the magic of television. (7)
See the cast list starring Rosalind Russell from the CBS radio broadcast of Much Ado About Nothing and listen to some of the broadcast at Touchscreen 2 behind you. Watch clips from TV shows also. |