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  1. Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the life and work of Jean Rhys, born and brought up on the Caribbean island of Dominica, and her most well-known novel, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’.

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  2. Language of Realism, The (1996 Audio)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Audiocassette. 90 min., 1996 sale: £11.99 (inclusive)

    Readings from ‘Great Expectations’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Fathers and Sons’. Each extract is followed by an interview which examines how the language used creates a sense of realism. Cicely...

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  3. York Mystery Plays, The (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows the Medieval Players performing part of ‘The Annunciation’ from the Spicers’ Guild, and all of ‘Joseph’s Trouble about Mary’ from the Pewterers’ and Founders’ Guild from the York...

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  4. Arts Review Round Up (1990 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama

    Open University Arts Review 12. Jenny Lecoat talks to Cicely Palser Havely, Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open University and Team Chair of the OU’s A361 Shakespeare course. They discuss the...

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  5. Antony and Cleopatra: Workshop (1985 Television, Video)

    Producer
    David Hoyle
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The workshop examines one of the many short, crowded scenes of the play, in which Antony takes his leave of Cleopatra before going into battle with Caesar. Director John Russell-Brown works with James...

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  6. Acting Cleopatra (1984 Audio)

    Producer
    Janet Thomas
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution (2006), Audiocassette. 18 min., 1998 sale: £9.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Cicely Palser Havely talks to Glenda Jackson, who describes her approach to playing Cleopatra in Peter Brook’s 1979 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Antony and Cleopatra. Produced for the A361...

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  7. Mansfield Park: Improvement (1983 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Stresses the visual elements and the social historical context of the novel. The theme of ‘improvement’ is illustrated in terms of the then fashionable doctrine of redressing the balance between art and...

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  8. Hamlet 1: Studies in Interpretation (Television)

    Producer
    Richard Callanan
    Subject
    Drama

    A programme in the Open University’s Arts Foundation Course. The programme takes two scenes from the play and shows how academic interpretation can take on a dramatic life in performance. Act II, sc. i is...

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  9. Hamlet 2: The Readiness is All (Television)

    Producer
    Richard Callanan
    Subject
    Drama

    A programme in the Open University’s Arts Foundation Course. The programme analyses Hamlet’s mind as he faces death. Brian Stone introduces scenes and speeches throughout the play and, by juxtaposing...

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  10. King Lear: The Fool (Television)

    Producer
    Richard Callanan
    Subject
    Drama

    A programme in the Open University Renaissance and Reformation Course. Cicely Havely looks at scenes in King Lear to which the Fool’s role is central and tries to analyse his part in the play’s action...

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