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Chaucer: Introduction to the Canterbury Tales

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 160 mins approx), £20.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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Canterbury Tales, The 1 (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

An introduction to Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’, with Middle English, modern English and facsimile versions. Also contains a an exploration of key themes, a guide to the characters; glossary;...

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Helen Cooper and Chaucer’s Influence on Shakespeare (2020 Audio)

aka: Episode 92

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week she talks to Dr. Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, on the influence of Geoffrey...

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Apius and Virginia by ‘R B’ (198 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 87 min., 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

Based on Chaucer’s ‘Physician’s Tale’, in which a Roman father beheads his only daughter to save her from the lust of a wicked judge, this 1560’s ‘heroine’ play is a quintessentially English...

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Canterbury Tales, The (Animated) (2001)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 mins each part), £9.49 each

An animated series of the tales made for television, offering the opportunity to hear an authentic Middle English version as well as a modern English version of the same text. Jonathan Myerson’s adaptation...

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Marion Turner on the Wife of Bath: A Biography (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 206

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Garland Scott; Matt Frassica

Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to author Marion Turner about her book, The Wife of Bath: A Biography, and the influence Chaucer’s character had on later writers including Shakespeare.

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Some Problems in Reading the Canterbury Tales (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between P. Brown of Kent University and D. Pearsall of York University

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Canterbury Tales, The (2005)

Director

Marc Munden; John McKay; Julian Jarrold; Andy De Emmony

Producer

Kate Bartlett

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £26 (IMC); £1,170 (BBC Active)

Six part drama series, consisting of retellings of six of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, updated for a modern audience and given a contemporary setting. Starring Julie Walters, James Nesbit, Billie...

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Wife of Bath’s Prologue, The (Cd-Rom) (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM containing the transcriptions of all 58 of the extant manuscripts (witnesses) of the work, plus a word-by-word collation of each, digital images of all the 1200 pages (manuscript and early printed...

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Lawrence Spicer and looks at the Barbican area of London, its regeneration and life in the village. Talks to: George Vine(?), chairman of the...

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