Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

school or by individuals listening for sheer pleasure. Just as A Midsummer Night's Dream has service to render through library collections, so has Timon of Athens. The audience may he somewhat more limited by age and maturity, still the enjoyment of hearing this performance should be no less. Troyhis And Cressida (Shakespeare According Society, New York; SRS I'^A) is similarly intended for group ii](l individual hstening. This play, ii)o, is presented in complete form. The text employed is the Penguin Shakespeare and each album is accompanied by a complete text of the pi-rformancc for the edification of the listener. The tale of Troylus and Cressida \\ hich tells how Troylus won the love III Cressida through the intervention ol her uncle, Pandaras, was not one (it the original Greek legends about the city of Troy. It is a medieval invention, and was very popular. Perliaps the popularity stems from the appearance of such well known characters as Priam (played by John Bennett), Hector (played by Edward De Souza), Paris (Alan Howard), Achilles (Derek Godfrey), Ajax i Peter Bayliss) and Ulysses (Eric Por I (I ) . The title roles are played by Jeremy Brett and Di;ine Cilento. Cyril Cusack is heard as Thersites and Max Adrian as Pandarus. The Shakespeare Recording Society also offers "King Richard II" with John Gielgud appearing in the title role. The Life and Death of King Richard II (Shakespeare Recording Society, New York; SRS 216) is a poet's play. The performance is replete with great 1 speeches and the writing is that of the poet rather than the dramatist. Richard H is always posing, and only an accomplished performer capable of realizing the poetic beauty of the lines can play the part successfully. College students— some high school ' students— and many adults will find both pleasure and satisfaction in hearing this performance. Because the author faced an appreciative but largely illiterate audience, he prepared material designed as much to be heard ,[s read; to be seen in the imagination lather than through contrived sets and lighting set-ups totally unknown to his time. Accordingly it is entirely appropriate that we, as we study the work of Shakespeare, read and listencreating in our imagination the scenes and conditions of the performance. Students, for the first time, can hear the trilog>' of King Henry IV, Part 1, King Henry TV, Part 2, and King Henry V in consistent portrayal. These three plays are, in reality, one very long presentation and it is significant that Spoken Arts ( New Rochelle, New York) elected to offer these simultaneously with the same persons playing the major roles. For instance, Colin Jeavons is the young and irrepressible Henry, Prince of Wales, in Henry IV, Part 1 . In the second play he has progressed to the beloved "Prince Hal," companion to Sir John Falstaff and lover of merriment. But in King Henry V the same actor portrays the serious, intent King who was able to unite his countrymen behind him. Similarly John Blatchley is heard as Sir John Falstaff in both Part 1 and Part 2 of Henry IV. Such consistency of casting reflects the integrity and high purpose of the producer. Similarly, Marriott Longman is heard as Mistress Quickly, Jonas Forti as Bardolph, Peter Bourne as Poins and Murray Gilmore as King Henry IV wherever these characters appear in the trilogy. Each of these is a shortened version of the play in which the major scenes are reproduced. In King Henry IV, Part 1 we hear Act I, Scenes 2 and 3; Act II, Scene 3; Act III, Scene 3; Act IV, Scenes 3 and 4; and. Act V, Scenes 1, 2 and 5. In "Part 2" we hear Act I, Scene 2; Act II, Scenes 2 and 4; Act III, Scenes 1 and 2; Act IV, Scene 5; and. Act V, Scenes 3 and 5. In Henry V we hear Act I, Scene I; Act II, Scenes 3 and 4; Act III, Prologue and Scenes 1, 4, 6 and 7; Act IV, Prologue and Scenes 1 and 3; and. Act V, Scene 2. Libraries and schools have here an imusual opportunity to offer these plays in sequence at regular intervals. It Nvill be possible to offer a "Shake All Overhead Projector is only as Valuable as its TOTAL USEFULNESS in the Classroom Available with your Keystone Overhead Projector — at reasonable cost — are these prepared materials: 1. Science Transparencies —a splendid series of standard (3% X 4 in.) slides on Biology, Physics, General Science, Health, Elementary Science. 2. Social Studies Transparencies, standard size,3y4x4". 3. Map Slides, 2Vt x 4 in. 4. Polaroid Transparencies, SVi X 4 in. 5. Tachlstoslides for teaching Reading, Music, Typewriting, Shorthand, Arithmetic, Foreign Lsmguages. 6. PRACTICAL USABLE Handmade Slides and Transparency Materials. Etched Glass Slides used with ordinary lead pencil. 7. 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