Who Was Rosalind?
In Shakespeare's time his great female roles would have been played by boys. Susan Hitch tries to find out who they were, and discovers what lessons the boys still have to tell us.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Factual
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 28'22''
- Broadcast date: 2013
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Shakespeare Archive Resource
Front Row | Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
1623 Review Show, presented by Tom Sutcliffe. Front Row's panel of guests make a change from their usual review of the week's arts and instead go back in time and review the music, poems and plays from the year that the First Folio was published.
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