These are "direct" adaptations of Shakespeare, so nothing like Jack Benny's 1936 Minstrel Show version of Romeo and Juliet is included here. It isn't that those aren't interesting, but that is just not what I'm interested in right now.
| Series | Play | Date (dd/mm/yyyy) |
| Precursor to Radio Guild? (NBC) | The Tempest | 1928 |
| CBC | The Tempest | 22/04/1929 |
| CBC | Taming of the Shrew | 11/06/1929 |
| Radio Guild | Romeo & Juliet | 11/06/1929 |
| Radio Guild | As You Like It | 15/01/1930 |
| CBC | Merchant of Venice | 15/06/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | Othello | 06/07/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | Hamlet Pt 1 | 03/08/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | Hamlet Pt 2 | 10/08/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | MacBeth | 17/08/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | King Lear | 07/09/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | Othello | 14/09/1930 |
| An Hour with Shakespeare (CBC[?]/NBC) | Richard III | 21/09/1930 |
| Scenes from Shakespeare (CBC/NBC) | Much Ado About Nothing Pt 1 | 12/10/1930 |
| Scenes from Shakespeare (CBC/NBC) | Much Ado About Nothing Pt 2 | 19/10/1930 |
| Scenes from Shakespeare (CBC/NBC) | Julius Caesar Pt 1 | 26/10/1930 |
| Radio Guild | Julius Caesar | 21/11/1930 |
| Radio Guild | Romeo & Juliet | 16/01/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Hamlet Pt 1 | 20/03/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Hamlet Pt 2 | 27/03/1931 |
| Radio Guild | MacBeth | 17/04/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Midsummer Night's Dream | 23/10/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Julius Caesar | 30/10/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Hamlet Pt 1 | 06/11/1931 |
| Radio Guild | Hamlet Pt 2 | 13/11/1932 |
| Radio Guild | Romeo & Juliet | 31/11/1932 |
| Radio Guild | Henry V | 07/11/1932 |
| Radio Guild | As You Like It | 14/11/1932 |
| Radio Guild | Richard III | 21/11/1932 |
| Radio Guild | Julius Caesar | 16/10/1933 |
| Radio Guild | The Tempest | 23/04/1934 |
| CBC | Scenes from Shakespeare | 25/04/1934 |
| Radio Guild | Midsummer Night's Dream | 13/08/1934 |
| Radio Guild | Othello | 17/09/1934 |
| Radio Guild (CBC/NBC) | As You Like It | 22/10/1934 |
| Radio Guild | MacBeth | 19/11/1934 |
| Radio Guild | Twelfth Night | 31/12/1934 |
| Radio Guild | Henry IV, Pt 1 | 04/03/1935 |
| Radio Guild | Midsummer Night's Dream | 29/07/1935 |
| Radio Guild | King John | 11/07/1935 |
| Radio Guild | Much Ado About Nothing | 17/10/1935 |
| Radio Guild | Richard II | 14/11/1935 |
| Radio Guild | 1 Henry IV Pt 1 | 21/11/1935 |
| Radio Guild | 1 Henry IV Pt 2 | 05/12/1935 |
| Radio Guild | 2 Henry IV Pt 1 | 12/12/1935 |
| Radio Guild | 2 Henry IV Pt 2 | 19/12/1935 |
| Radio Guild | Henry V Pt 1 | 26/12/1935 |
| Radio Guild | Henry V Pt 2 | 02/01/1936 |
| Radio Guild | Henry VI Pt 1 | 09/01/1936 |
| Radio Guild | Henry VI Pt 2 | 16/01/1936 |
| Radio Guild | Henry VI Pt 3 | 23/01/1936 |
| Radio Guild | Richard III Pt 1 | 30/01/1936 |
| CBC | Richard III Pt 2 | 06/02/1936 |
| Radio Guild | King Henry VIII | 13/02/1936 |
| Columbia Workshop | Hamlet Pt 1 | 19/09/1936 |
| Columbia Workshop | Hamlet Pt 2 | 14/11/1936 |
| Radio Guild/CBC | Twelfth Night | 27/11/1936 |
| Columbia Workshop | MacBeth | 28/02/1937 |
| Radio Guild | Shakespeare | 23/04/1937 |
| Theater Guild on the Air | MacBeth | 11/05/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | Hamlet | 21/06/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | Richard III | 28/06/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | MacBeth | 05/07/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | The Tempest | 12/07/1937 |
| Shakespearean Cycle (CBS) | Hamlet | 12/07/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | Twelfth Night | 19/07/1937 |
| Shakespearean Cycle (CBS) | Much Ado About Nothing | 19/07/1937 |
| Streamlined Shakespeare (NBC) | Taming of the Shrew | 26/07/1937 |
| Shakespearean Cycle (CBS) | Julius Caesar | 26/07/1937 |
| Shakespearean Cycle (CBS) | Taming of the Shrew | 02/08/1937 |
| Shakespearean Cycle (CBS) | Henry IV | 23/08/1937 |
| Radio Guild (CBC/NBC) | Coriolanus | 04/10/1937 |
| Radio Guild | Anthony and Cleopatra | 12/11/1937 |
| CBC | Anthony and Cleopatra | 13/11/1937 |
| Great Plays | Midsummer Night's Dream | 26/03/1938 |
| CBC | A Tribute to Shakespeare | 23/04/1938 |
| Radio Guild | Julius Caesar | 22/04/1938 |
| Great Plays | Midsummer Night's Dream | 26/03/1938 |
| CBC | Merchant of Venice | 10/09/1938 |
| Mercury Summer Theatre | Julius Caesar | 11/09/1938 |
| Great Plays | Midsummer Night's Dream | 13/11/1938 |
| CBC | King Lear | 13/11/1938 |
| Great Plays | Julius Caesar | 20/11/1938 |
| Great Plays | Othello | 27/11/1938 |
| CBC | Shakespeare's England | 05/11/1939 |
| Great Plays | Romeo & Juliet | 12/11/1939 |
| Great Plays | Much Ado About Nothing | 19/11/1939 |
| Great Plays | MacBeth | 26/11/1939 |
| Columbia Workshop | As You Like It | 07/12/1939 |
| CBC | Shakespeare's England | 10/12/1939 |
| Columbia Workshop | Taming of the Shrew | 21/03/1940 |
| Great Plays | Love's Labours Lost | 10/11/1940 |
| Great Plays | Merry Wives of Windsor | 17/11/1940 |
| Great Plays | The Tempest | 20/11/1940 |
| Great Plays | Taming of the Shrew | 28/12/1941 |
| CBC | The Falstaff Scenes from 1 Henry IV | 03/02/1944 |
| Columbia Workshop | Richard III | 02/06/1946 |
| Theater Guild on the Air | MacBeth | 11/05/1947 |
| Theater Guild on the Air | Romeo & Juliet | 08/02/1948 |
| CBC | 1 Henry IV, First Half | nd |
| CBC | 2 Henry IV, Second Half | nd |
| CBC | King John | nd |
| CBC | King Henry VIII | nd |
| CBC | Midsummer Night's Dream | nd |
| CBC | Twelfth Night | 1964 |
| CBC | Midsummer Night's Dream | nd |
| CBC | Thanks to Mr. Shakespeare | nd |
1 comments:
Interesting list.
Theater Guild on the Air also did a 90-minute Hamlet with John Gielgud March 4, 1951.
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