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  1. Introduction to ‘Piers Plowman’ (2 Parts) (1975 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 37, 34 min.

    Part 1: Professor Harold Brooks highlights the influences of Langland’s life and education on his work, sketches the criticism of 14th-century religious and social life found in ‘Piers Plowman’ and...

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  2. Piers Plowman: The Wild Way (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 58 min.

    Professor Brooks takes his listeners on a guided tour of the poem.

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  3. Major Barbara: The Pattern and Central Themes of the Play (2 Parts) (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 34, 46 min.

    1: Noting the influence of the literary interests and family background of Gilbert Murray on this play, Professor Harold Brooks examines the themes of material and spiritual power and the influence of these...

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  4. 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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  5. T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’: A Poem of Hope (1973 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 60 min.

    Professor Harold Brooks questions those views which see Eliot’s poem as one of despair and horror. He indicates the three main planes on which Eliot handles his criticism of modern society, and takes the...

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  6. Congreve’s ‘The Way of the World’ (2 Parts) (1979 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 54, 61 min.

    Professor Brooks clarifies the complications of the plot, and then examines the world Congreve depicts, the duel between the hero and heroine, the characterisation in the play and the writer’s style.

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  7. 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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  8. Family Reunion, The (4 Parts) (1977 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 40, 53, 42, 52 min.

    Tape 1: Professor Harold Brooks surveys the influences on and antecedents of Eliot’s drama of religious experience. Tape 2 treats the character groupings of the play, and describes the story from three...

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  9. Virginia Woolf: The Nine Ages of Man: ‘The Waves’ (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 26, 35 min.

    Professor Brooks considers first the origin and general form of the novel ‘The Waves’, and in Part 2 analyses the novel and Bernard’s culminating vision.

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  10. Virginia Woolf: A New Kind of Novelist (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 40, 43 min.

    An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. In Part 1 Professor Brooks treats the writer’s special gifts in this literary genre, and her vision of experience. In Part 2 he considers Virginia Woolf’s...

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