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  1. Ancient Drama - Contemporary Views (1989 Video)

    Director
    Lucia Rikaki
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    Contemporary interpretations of classic Greek plays by leading directors. Includes extracts from Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Andrej Wajda), ‘Oresteia’ by Aeschylus (Hans Gunther Heyme), ‘The...

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  2. Seize the Fire (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    This specially commissioned play is a modern version by Tom Paulin of Aeschylus’ fifth-century Greek drama ‘Prometheus Bound’. The play begins with Prometheus bound to a rock at the world’s end, by...

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  3. Prometheus Unbound (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Introduction to Shelley’s play, setting it in its cultural context: Aeschylus, Göethe and Byron, Flaxman, Beethoven and Schubert. Examples are chosen from the opening act of Prometheus’ suffering and...

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  4. Staging Greek Tragedy: Insights on Sites (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £38.00 (inc. p&p +VAT)

    An analysis and reconstruction of the staging of ‘Oresteia’ of Aeschylus. The conventions of tragedy in performance and the architecture of the Greek theatre are explained using the ancient theatre at...

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  5. Mourning Becomes Electra (1979) (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 300 minutes), £16.82

    This expressionistic work is Eugene O’Neill’s classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide. Set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era, O’Neill’s...

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  6. Theatre and the State, The: Archaeological Reconstruction (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., Sale as part of A209/VC1 only.

    Where and how were the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides performed? What did theatre mean to the Greeks? Chris Emlyn-Jones looks at archaeological evidence in Athens, Epidaurus and Thorikos - and...

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