Synopsis
Dame Edith Sitwell reads a sequence of poems chosen from a recital she gave at the Edinburgh Festival. These include 'Take, O, take those lips away' from Measure for Measure and the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
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