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The First Stage: 7: Moral Interludes: Secular Entertainment

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A chronicle of the development of English drama
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton

'Fulgens and Lucrece' by Henry Medwall (c. 1497)
Extract from 'Mundus et Infans' (before 1522)
Extract from 'Hickscorner' (before 1512)
The first part of 'Magnyfycence' by John Skelton (c. 1516)
Courtiers:
Music composed by John Hotchkis with the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by the composer

Contributors

Presenter/Arranged by:
John Barton
Music composed by/Conductor:
John Hotchkis
Musicians:
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
A, a youth, afterwards servant to Gaius:
Geoffrey Matthews
B, a youth, afterwards servant to Publius:
Allan McClelland
Fulgens, a Roman senator:
Carleton Hobbs
Publius Cornelius, a patrician:
Denis Goacher
Lucrece, daughter to Fulgens:
Annette Kelly
Joan, handmaid to Lucrece:
Denise Bryer
Gaius Flaminius, a plebeian:
David Peel
Manhood:
Norman Shelley
Conscience:
Carleton Hobbs
Freewill:
Norman Shelley
Perseverance:
Carleton Hobbs
Contemplation:
Trevor Martin
Imagination:
John Graham
Liberty:
David Peel
Felicity:
John Graham
Measure, the King's chief counsellor:
Brewster Mason
Magnyfycence, the King:
James McKechnie
Fancy, alias Largess:
Geoffrey Matthews
Counterfeit Countenance, alias Good Demeanance:
Norman Shelley
Cloaked Collusion, alias Sober Sadness:
Carleton Hobbs
Jenkin Jolly, alias Lusty Pleasure:
Denis Goacher
Folly, a jester, brother to Fancy:
Allan McClelland
Adversity:
Trevor Martin

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