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Poetry Reading [12/1/1927] (1927 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Reading of excerpts from Act V of King John.

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Gerhart Hauptmann (1962 Film)

Subject

Drama; German studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A biography of the poet and dramatist transmitted on the occasion of his centenary. Shows still photographs of various productions of his plays. The narration of the German language version is by Ernst...

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Spoken Anthology of 16th-Century Poetry and Prose, A (1976 Audio)

Series

Exeter Tapes

One of a series of study tapes developed and produced in association with the Language Centre of the University of Exeter.

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Dryden’s ‘Macflecknoe’: An Appreciation (1976 Audio)

Director

N.C. Collins

Producer

N.C. Collins

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette.

Professor Brooks considers the origin of the satire and the choice of Flecknoe for the attack upon Shadwell. He then examines the central concept of the poem, its special qualities as a specimen of the...

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Sweet Swan of Avon (2009 Film)

aka: Robert Crumpton’s Shakespeare

Director

Jørgen Friberg

Producer

Kjell Eriksen

Documentary film. Petter Amundsen believes that he has discovered a unique set of codes hidden in The Tempest that prove that Shakespeare was an illiterate actor, and that Francis Bacon in collaboration with...

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Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times (1986 Video)

Director

Faris Kermani

Producer

H O Nazareth

Subject

English language and literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.

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Venus and Adonis (1959 Radio)

Series

Four’s Company

Director

John Reeves

Radio dramatisation of Venus and Adonis adapted by Irving Tuttle and Jeff Hurley.

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Language of Shakespeare, The (1937 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare

The last in a series of radio talks on Shakespeare is given by George Rylands, author of Words and Poetry (1928), and focuses on the meaning of Shakespeare’s diction and style.

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Paradise Lost 2 (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive guide to ‘Paradise Lost’, incorporating the complete text with notes and glossary; interactive tutorials with Dr Robert Wilcher and Dr Tom Winnifrith; Milton’s life and works;...

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Phoenix and the Turtle, The (1948 Radio)

Radio programme. Shakespeare’s poem read by Douglas Leach. Includes a talk by Bonamy Dobrée, Professor of English Literature at Leeds University, England.

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