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  1. Staging Greek Tragedy: Insights on Sites (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £38.00 (inc. p&p +VAT)

    An analysis and reconstruction of the staging of ‘Oresteia’ of Aeschylus. The conventions of tragedy in performance and the architecture of the Greek theatre are explained using the ancient theatre at...

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  2. Revolution and Rebirth: Modern Theatrical Reform and Its Debt to Antiquity (198 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., £38.00 (inc p&p + VAT)

    The evolution of modern theatrical production based on Wagner’s ideal of the ‘total work of art’. Starting with Wagner’s reform of opera, it details the ideas of Adolphe Appia, who first formulated a...

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  3. Bruay Affair, The (1977 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Dyke
    Subject
    French studies; Law; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

    Describes the legal procedures and social implications of the murder in April 1972 of Brigitte Dewèvre, a miner’s daughter from the small town in northern France of Bruay-en-Artois.

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  4. Restoration Stage, The: From Tennis Court to Playhouse (Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 46 min., £38.00 (+VAT inc p&p)

    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...

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  5. Struggle for the Mediterranean in the Sixteenth Century, The (Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: £19.99 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the factions that struggled to control the Mediterranean in the late 15th and early 16th-centuries. Covers: Venice in crisis - Turks and Portuguese; conflict spreads to the western Mediterranean;...

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