Speaking: Queen Elizabeth Hall [Southbank Centre]: Shakespeare: The King's a beggar, now the play is done, 10 April 2000

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900279Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and schedule on Greer giving the inaugural lecture in the Royal Festival Hall/BBC Radio 3 season, Shakespeare for the Millennium. Greer gave lecture titled ''The King's a beggar, now the play is done'; Shakespeare and subversion', 10/4/2000, for fee of 1,200 pounds. The lecture was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and a version edited to 1,400 words published in the Daily Telegraph: 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown', 13/5/2000. Includes laser print of two typescripts: 13 pages, unnumbered, annotated and page numbered 1 to 9, both begin: "Most of Shakespeare's plays have monarchs in them..."; contract; transcript; Royal Festival Hall April-June Literature bulletin; with compliments slip from BBC Production with note "RADIO 18/10/2000. Tape received 18/10/2000 Shakespeare for the Millennium…". Also contains invitation from Solihull Careers Centre to speak at girls' secondary school, 13/7/2000 (appears to be estray). Correspondents: Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Antonia Byatt, Head of Literature and Talks, Royal Festival Hall; Abigail Appleton, Editor, Night Waves, BBC Arts and Classical Music Radio; Ruth Borthwick, Head of Literature, Royal Festival Hall; Suky Seehra, Rights Assistant, BBC; Judith Palmer, Royal Festival Hall; Tanya Hudson, Producer, BBC Radio Arts; Sasha Hoare, Literature Assistant, Royal Festival Hall; Lesley Shaw, Gillon Aitken Associates; Marilyn Kahn, Solihull Careers Centre. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; William ShakespeareAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0009

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date29 November 1999-18 October 2000

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Speaking: Queen Elizabeth Hall [Southbank Centre]: Shakespeare: The King's a beggar, now the play is done, 10 April 2000