The Second Shepherds' Play
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CAEDMON Caedmon TC1032 a. RECORDS o z 3 I oc S CO CO THE THIRD DIMENSION OF THE PRINTED PAGE , h •- « • • V Vs VI' N ' Other Caedmon Records of Interest PLAY Caedmon/Shakespeare Recording Society Productions The plays below are complete productions, with superb casts ^ LU CAED] MON chosen and directed specifically for these recordings by Howard Sackler and Peter Wood. The albums are handsomely boxed, a third dimension for the printed page with the complete text of the play in book form and background notes by G. B. Harrison, the distinguished Shakespearean scholar. '■v*J Cd Each play is available in either stereo or monaural recordings at SHEPHERDS’ the same price. Monaural is designated by the symbol —M after SRS. ffhe Second Shepherds’ Play Comedies Measure for Measure SECOND CQ Sir John Gielgud as Angelo, Sir Ralph Richardson as the Duke THE CAST and Margaret Leighton as Isabella. First Shepherd.Joss Ackland O o i i i SRS (SRS-M) 204 3-12" $17.85 THE op Second Shepherd..Peter Bayliss ! *V cA ! / As You Like It Third Shepherd.Diarmid Cammell/<P j Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind, Keith Michell as Orlando, Stanley 1032 £ O Mak .Rohert Stephens W” Holloway as Touchstone and Max Adrian as Jaques. SRS (SRS-M) 210 3-12" $17.85 TC O Gill .Avril Elgar Angel .Owen Wynne The Taming of the Shrew dQ <C Trevor Howard as Petruchio, Margaret Leighton as Kate. Virgin Mary.Patricia Somerset SRS (SRS-M) 211 2-12" $11.90 Twelfth Night Directed by HOWARD SACKLER Siobhan McKenna as Viola, Paul Scofield as Malvolio, John Neville as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Vanessa Redgrave as Olivia. HE CHURCH, at the beginning of the observer, was thirty feet long: in one corner stood SRS (SRS-M) 213 3-12" $17.85 thirteenth century, banished drama Mak’s house, in the center were the fields, and at from within its portals, for the audi¬ the far side was the stable in Bethlehem, where the The Winter s Tale ence was enjoying the homely details final scene takes place. Sir John Gielgud as Leontes and Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Paulina. too much and shghting the religious SRS (SRS-M) 214 3-12" $17.85 This was the setting for the first English comedy, purpose of the miracle plays. The guilds, sometimes a masterpiece of primitive literature, created with¬ Histories with the aid of the corporations which controlled out benefit of classical theorems or indeed of any the larger towns, thereupon took over the sponsor¬ Richard the Second drama at all as a model, its only progenitors drama¬ ship of plays. They continued to be tied to the holi¬ Sir John Gielgud as King Richard, Keith Michell as Bolingbroke tized religious stories. and Leo McKern as John of Gaunt. days of Christmas and Easter; but their production SRS (SRS-M) 216 3-12" $17.85 was undertaken by the entire community. It is part of the Towneley or Wakefield cycle (the By 1400—the year of Chaucer s death, two hun¬ first named for the site of preservation, the second Tragedies dred years before Hamlet—the plays were being for the presenting crafts), a collation of religious- Othello put on at street corners or in the town square. The didactic plays, a group probably based on an Frank Silvera as Othello, Gyril Gusack as lago, Anna Massey as scenes were mounted on stands, with the crowd earlier version of the York plays, and a group of Desdemona and Gelia Johnson as Emilia. moving from stand to stand. The more opulent pro¬ five plays by a single writer, two of them shepherds’ SRS (SRS-M) 225 3-12" $17.85 TC plays. The title Secunda Pastorum (Second Shep¬ ductions, known as pageants, were mounted on Coridlanus wagons drawn by apprentices or horses; the pa¬ herds’ ) is therefore a means merely of idenjtifying Richard Burton as Goriolanus, Jessica Tandy as Volumnia, Ken¬ 1032 geant stopped at important street comers, where it from the first try. The author, a writer of crafts¬ neth Haigh as Aufidius and Michael Hordern as Menenius. the crowds gathered to watch. manship, wit and human insight, is our earliest SRS (SRS-M) 226 3-12" $17.85 The pageant on which the Second Shepherds' identifiable playwright, if only by the title "‘the THE Romeo and Juliet Play was performed, we are told by a contemporary Wakefield master.” Glaire Bloom as Juliet, Albert Finney as Romeo and Dame Edith Evans as the Nurse. SECOND SRS (SRS-M) 228 3-12" $17.85 This record is Volume 3 in the series Monuments of Early English Drama Macbeth A presentation of unsurpassed pre-Shakespearean drama, in Volume 2: Everyman, starring Burgess Meredith Anthony Quayle as Macbeth, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Lady chronological order, from its beginnings in church ritual through Modern audiences never fail to respond to the austere dramatic Macbeth, and Stanley Holloway as the Porter. SHEPHERDS’ the stirring drama and farce of medieval playwrights, and the power of Everyman. It is the greatest of the morality plays, and SRS (SRS-M) 231 2-12" $11.90 ‘‘mighty line” of Marlovs^e. one of the most important accomplishments of English drama. Text included. Troylus and Cressida TC 1031 1-12" $5.95 Jeremy Brett as Troylus, Diane Cilento as Gressida, Gyril Gusack as Thersites and Max Adrian as Pandarus. The other records are: Volume 4: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus starring Frank Silver a SRS (SRS-M) 234 3-12" $17.85 A play combining the finest elements of medieval and Renaissance Volume 1: The Wellsprings of Drama Cymbeline drama, and all but rivahng Shakespeare in its tragic grandeur. PLAY QUEM QUAERITIS • BANNS • THE DELUGE • ABRAHAM AND ISAAC In this performance, only the irrelevant comic interludes and sev¬ Glaire Bloom as Imogen, Pamela Brown as the Queen and Boris • ROBIN HOOD. Text included. eral minor scenes have been omitted. Text included. Karloff as the King of Britain, Cymbeline. TC 1030 1-12" $5.95 TC 1033 1-12" $5.95 SRS (SRS-M) 236 3-12" $17.85 ©1962, CAEDMON RECORDS Performance and reproduction rights information available from Caedmon Records, 461 Eighth Avenue, New York 1, New York • Made in U.S.A. / Monuments of Early English Drama \ / Volume 2 ' THE • SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY Wdy TC-1032-A Side 1 fee • Directed by Howard Sadder / Monuments of Early English Drama \ ^ Volume! THE*^ . SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY TC-1032-B Side 2 RPM 33i . Directed by Howard Sackler .