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Monday, November 28, 2022

John, Paul, Pyramus, and Thisbe: The Beatles performing Shakespeare

shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu: On April 28, 1964, the most famous band in the history of popular music taped a television special at Wembley Park Studios in London. The show was called Around the Beatles, and it followed hard on the heels of the Beatles’ legendary first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show less than three months earlier. This time, though, the group’s appearance did not begin with a rock and roll song, but rather with the performance of something quite different: the “Pyramus and Thisbe” episode from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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