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Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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King’s a Beggar - Now the Play is Done, The (2000 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Lectures

Producer

Tanya Hudson

BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 1 Professor Germaine Greer argues that Shakespeare’s neglected play King John is one of the most...

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College Brecht: Workshopping Brecht’s Approaches (2012)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £90.00

The film presents a series of workshops with college students, aged 16-18, to suggest approaches to Brecht as playwright and practitioner. The sessions can be adapted to suit high school, undergraduate or...

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Sense and Sensation: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (2002)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £!6.99

An exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London, written and presented by historian John Brewer. The film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. A world,...

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Seven Lears (1990 Audio)

Director

Kenny Ireland

Live audio recording at the Royal Court Theatre, London of Howard Barker’s play Seven Lears, a prequel to King Lear in which Barker re-invents and enlarges the roles of Lear’s women. The play is divided...

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King Lear (1987 Audio)

Director

David Hare

Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.

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Passwords: Poets and Poetry from the Neab Anthology

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 25 minutes), £19.99 together

The series features selected poets and poems from the NEAB GCSE English Language and Literature Anthology. Programmes 1-3 on Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Ted Hughes feature the poets themselves and...

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Die Beiden aus Verona (1960 Radio)

aka: Those Two from Verona

Producer

Hans-Dieter Schwarze

Gert Hofmann’s radio drama re-visits the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, examining the myth of everlasting love. Through divine intervention by Jupiter, the lovers in Hofmann’s version do not...

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