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This great religious allegory, dating from the late 1670s, is presented as a dream in which Christian undertakes a journey through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City. In Part II he is followed by...
Radio variety show. This episode sets up a confrontation between John Barrymore as a stage veteran and Orson Welles as the new star of radio. The programme closes with a performance of IV iii from Julius...
A video version of John Bunyan’s famous allegory ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’.
Demonstrates ways in which artists have used personification and allegory - the dramatised deeds of personifications - to express ideas and to influence viewers in emulation of poets, teachers or orators....
A fairytale quest which is also an allegory of education: Wit (Intelligence) sets out to win the hand of Lady Science (Knowledge) by killing the giant Tediousness (Boredom), and incidentally proves that...
Contrasts representations of women in Indian and French sculpture. Compares religious images from the ninth-century temples at Khajuraho in India with Dalou’s secular ‘The Triumph of the Republic’,...
Proud, eccentric and anti-social, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town, discovers...
Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, an allegory about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in a nameless war, is presented in the Masters of Cinema edition in its new restoration carried out in 2012...
Fourth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...
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