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'THE GREAT DESIRE I HAD'

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Shakespeare and Italy by Henry Reed
The time: perhaps 1593
The scene:
Ferrara, Verona, Padua, Venice, Mantua
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Reed
Production By:
Douglas Cleverdon
William Shakespeare:
Marius Goring
Isabella Andreini, an actress:
Flora Robson
Francesco Andreini, her husband:
John Phillips
Thomas Shewin:
Frank Duncan
Giulio Pasquati, an actor:
Carleton Hobbs
Ottavlo:
David Spenser
Orazio:
David Page
Silvia Roncagli:
Diana Maddox
A Veronese gentleman:
Arthur Young
A flower seller:
Vida Hope
A boy:
Jeremy Spenser
A guard:
Neville Hartley
Narrator:
Henry Reed

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