Anythynge You Want To is a 2001 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 album by The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre is an American comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor. Their brand of surrealistic humor is best known through their record albums, which acquired a cult following in the late 1960s and early '70s.The troupe began as live radio...

. It takes the form of a radio play

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

, under the conceit of being a lost work of Shakespeare, using language, plot structure, and characters which parody Shakespeare's original works. It was originally recorded in 1980 as a program for National Public Radio's Earplay

Earplay

Earplay was the longest-running of the formal series of radio drama anthologies on National Public Radio, heard from 1972 into the 1990s. It approached radio drama as an art form with scripts written by such leading playwrights as Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Archibald MacLeish and David...

, and was previously released in edited form in 1982 on LP

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 as Shakespeare's Lost Comedie.

Track listing

1. 2:02 Ye
   Thorn (letter)
   Thorn or þorn , is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets, as well as some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the...
   
   Hoste
2. 1:39 Ye Prologue
3. 3:37 Acte I, Scene I. A Nawful Place, A Heathe
4. 5:16 Acte I, Scene II. A Shippe at Sea
5. 6:25 Acte I, Scene III. Ye Rampartes of Castle Pflegem
6. 3:13 Ye Hoste Againne
7. 3:54 Acte II, Scene I. Ye Wilde Beache
8. 4:33 Acte II, Scene II. Ye Closette of ye Counte
9. 2:36 Acte II, Scene III. Ye Bishopp's Celle
10. 6:30 Acte II, Scene IV. A Graveyardde
11. 2:54 Ye Hoste Yett Againne
12. 4:30 Acte III, Scene I. Ye Coronation Roome
13. 2:19 Acte III, Scene II. A Battle Fielde
14. 6:48 Acte III, Scene III. Ye Bishopp's Battle Tente
15. 1:33 Ye Credittes

Issues and reissues

• LP Firesign / Rhino Rnlp-807(Lp), Rnc-807-4, 1982, (as Shakespeare's Lost Comedie)
• CD Firesign Theatre Records (Distributed by Whirlwind Media) 2001
• CD Firesign Theatre Records / Lodestone Catatlog MSUG090 2005

Citations and references

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