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This film of John Vanbrugh’s Restoration comedy ‘The Provoked Wife’, was made at the opening performance of a production of the play, directed by Professor Michael Cordner and Dr Tom Cantrell, in June...
Recording of a National Theatre/Out of Joint production of Oliver Goldsmith’s classic comedy of manners - a story of class, courtship and dysfunctional families - directed by Max Stafford-Clark.
The stage production of Aphra Behn’s Restoration comedy ‘The Rover’, first performed in 1677, with interviews with Jules Wright, director of the Women’s Playhouse Trust, and a discussion of the...
During the 17th century the theatre was predominately a male domain from which women were excluded, especially as playwrights. For Aphra Behn, the first woman playwright, to enter the fiercely competitive...
Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley’s bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr Horner - a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is...
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.
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...
Five Restoration comedies adapted for television. 1: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 2: By Thomas Shadwell. 3: By Sir John Vanbrugh. 4: By Sir Charles Sedley. 5: By William Congreve, adapted by Robin Chapman. With...
Traces the origins of the first Restoration playhouses in London from the example of French tennis court theatres in Paris. Shows how Sir William Davenant’s 1661 adaptation of Lisle’s tennis court into a...
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. Aimed primarily at sixth form and undergraduate students, the cassettes. On...
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