Dedication (BBC radio cast drama) (2021) - Nick Dear

Category: Adults, Full Cast, Historical Fiction, LGBT
Language: English
Keywords: BBC BBC Drama BBC Radio Drama England Gay Gays Radio Shakespeare The Earl Of Southampton The Gays William Shakespeare

Written by Nick Dear
Format: MP3
Dramatization

“Shakespeare’s relationship with the Earl of Southampton has been the centre of much debate.

“Was he perhaps Shakespeare’s lover?

“Shakespeare dedicated his poems The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis to Southampton and it has been suggested that Southampton is the fair youth of the Sonnets.

“Nick plays with three possibilities that may or may not explain an important period of Shakespeare’s life, sometimes referred to as The Lost Years, giving the audience the opportunity to make up their own minds.

“Much more is known about the Earl of Southampton than about William Shakespeare.

“It’s entirely possible that they never met, but it is equally possible they were lovers.

“No-one knows.

“Dear puts Shakespeare on trial, where he is questioned about his relationship with the gay, cross dressing Earl of Southampton.

“It is set in Elizabethan England and it is a play of intrigue, sex, politics and power.”

Cast:

William Shakespeare………………….Alfred Enoch
Harry, Earl of Southampton………….Tom Glenister
Lord Chief Justice………………………Sam Dale

Other roles played by: Nick Armfield, Tallulah Bond, Declan Mason, and Finlay Paul.