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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Shaw: His Kind of Drama (3 Parts) (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 55, 56, 46 min.

    Part 1: Professor Brooks looks at Shaw’s work against the background of the European revolution in drama in the late nineteenth century, with its concern for nature. He identifies Shaw’s sense of the...

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  8. Troilus and Cressida (2 Parts) (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION (2006), Audiocassette. 44, 34, 37, 44 min.

    1: Professor Harold Brooks introduces the play, singling out its uniqueness in the Shakespearean output. He then begins his treatment of the play’s dramatic unit, considering the choice of subject, the...

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  9. W B Yeats’ ‘The Tower’: An Exposition (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 56 min.

    The threat of old age to the will and the heart: Professor Brooks comments on this problem posed by Yeats, the poet’s consideration of his self and achievements, and his adjustment to the limitations of...

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  10. Troilus and Cressida (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins; Harold Brooks
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama

    Sound tape in 2 parts (4 tapes) in which Professor Harold Brooks discusses Troilus and Cressida. In Part 1: INTRODUCTION AND DRAMATIC UNITY Brooks gives an introduction to the play emphasising its...

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