Abstract
In 1964 BBC Television recorded the Royal Shakespeare Company's History plays cycle The Wars of the Roses. The production was shot in the RSC's Stratford-upon-Avon theatre, temporarily transformed into a multi-camera television studio, and it remains the only major production for British television to have been recorded in that manner. As well as detailing The Wars of the Roses’ unique production process, this article analyses the ways in which that approach determined a hybrid screen language for the series. It proposes that the television production exposes a tension between the plays' theatrical origin and competing imperatives of television presentation.
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