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  1. School for Scandal, The (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), $24.95

    First performed in 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s sophisticated comedy of manners satirizes the extravagance and corruption of London society. A witty look at the wages of scandal mongering and social...

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  2. Seven Ages of Man, The (2000 Radio)

    Series
    Comedy Hour, The
    Producer
    Frank Stirling

    Lunchtime comedy. Seven-part weekly series in which comedienne Jo Brand takes Jaques’s famous speech as a starting-point to investigate whether attitudes and manners have changed since Shakespeare wrote...

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  3. Restoration Comedy of Manners (1978 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. ? min., 2001 sale: £23.50 (inclusive)

    A compilation of extracts from seven talks by Harold Brooks about aspects of Restoration comedy. Titles are: ‘What Sort of Comedy?' (47 min); The Dramatists’ Artistic Justification (45 min); Stage and...

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  4. Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) (2001)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes/ 114 minutes), £9.99 £15.99 (special edition)

    Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners. Set in England during the Victorian era, the story revolves around a pun on the name Ernest.

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  5. Pygmalion (1938) (1938)

    Director
    Anthony Asquith
    Producer
    Gabriel Pascal
    Subject
    Anthropology; Drama; Education; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 96 minutes), £19.99

    Later adapted as ‘My Fair Lady’, in George Bernard Shaw’s comedy of manners, Pygmalion Snobbish Professor Higgins has a wager with his friend Colonel Pickering that with the right instruction he can...

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  6. She Stoops to Conquer (2003)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 139 minutes), £18.99

    Recording of a National Theatre/Out of Joint production of Oliver Goldsmith’s classic comedy of manners - a story of class, courtship and dysfunctional families - directed by Max Stafford-Clark.

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  7. News Stories (1995)

    Producer
    Paul Manners
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Looks at the distinctive ways the English language is used in television news by following a group of trainee journalists, observing their successes and failures. Also features extracts from the BBC...

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  8. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1991)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £14.99

    The discovery of Melpham Idol, a pagan phallic figure, in the coffin of a disinterred Bishop becomes the most important archaeological find of the century, a discovery that changes the course of scholarship...

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  9. Boys from Syracuse, The (1940 Film)

    Director
    A. Edward Sutherland
    Producer
    Jules Levey

    Feature film version of the Broadway musical by George Abbott, Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, itself a free adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. "A musical employing Shakespeare’s plot and Ephesus...

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  10. Cinema 16 DVD (2003)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    A DVD consisting of a compilation of some of the best short films past and present from British filmmakers, both established and emerging. In addition to the 16 films themselves the DVD includes commentaries...

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