Apius and Virginia by ‘R B’

Synopsis

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 crossbreed of popular Senecan tragedy with homebred exempleary drama, in which morality characters like Conscience and Justice and the vice Haphazard rub shoulders with historical personages and knockabout comics.

Language

English

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 87 min.

Year of production

198

Availability

Sale; 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

Documentation

Teachers’s notes supplied.

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Chaucer, Geoffrey; medieval drama

Production Company

Name

Lancaster University Television

Sponsor

Name

University of Lancaster, Department of English Language and Medieval Literature

Distributor

Name

Lancaster University Television

Email

lutv@lancaster.ac.uk

Phone

01524 593984

Fax

01524 594069

Address

Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YW

Notes

Formerly: University of Lancaster Media Services Unit