Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy

Alternative title
Elizabethan Revenge
Synopsis
Radio programme. Melvyn Bragg and guests Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, Julie Sanders, Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham, and Janet Clare, Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull, discuss Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedy from Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the context of the Elizabethan age.
Series
In Our Time
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Multimedia; Radio
Year of production
2009
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Elizabethan drama; Jacobean drama; Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627); revenge; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Webster, John; Kyd, Thomas (1558-1594)

Online availability

URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l16vp
Price
free
Delivery
Streamed

Credits

Producer
James Cook
Contributor
Janet Clare; Jonathan Bate; Julie Sanders; Melvyn Bragg

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
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Phone
020 7412 7676
Fax
020 7412 7441
Address
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
Name

Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service

Email
services@bufvc.ac.uk
Web
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Phone
020 7393 1514
Fax
020 7393 1555
Address
For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ

Distributor

Name

BBC Radio 4 Archive

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