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  1. Mysteries, The (2002)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99 (inclusive)

    A recording of a version of the Chester Mystery plays performed by a muti-racial, South African cast at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2001. The actors talk in a number of languages including English, Zulu and...

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  2. Scenes from ‘Dr Faustus’ By Christopher Marlowe (2 Parts) (1998 Television, Video)

    Producer
    Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 24 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p) pair

    Performance extracts of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, filmed during the Medieval Players’ 1988-89 tour. 1: Early scenes from the play. Emphasis is on the play as theatre, a text designed for actors and...

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  3. Magnificat: Three Plays in Honour of Our Lady from the N Town ‘Mary Play’ (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    The ‘Parlament of Heaven’, the ‘Annunciation’ and the ‘Visitation’: a ceremonious, thoughtful, female-centred sequence in praise of the Virgin Mary and her role in the Incarnation. The medieval...

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  4. Two Medieval Mystery Plays from the York Cycle (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £15 +p&p

    The Carpenters’ play of ‘The Resurrection’ and the Winedrawers’ play ‘Hortulanus’ ('The Gardener’: the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalen in the Garden), as performed on pageant waggons in...

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  5. 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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  6. Fool in Britain, The: The Theatrical Figure in His Mediaeval Background (1984 Video)

    Director
    Joyce Taylor
    Producer
    Sandra Billington
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution (2008)., Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

    Medieval illuminations presented to illustrate attitudes to the fool in medieval Britain and his role in society. The discussion includes the character’s appearance in morality plays and in Shakespeare.

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  7. Chester ‘Purification and Doctors’, The (1983 Video)

    Director
    Meg Twycross
    Producer
    David Blacow; Michael Bowen
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min.

    A television performance of the Chester mystery play. It tells how the aged Simeon is finally convinced by a miracle that Christ will be born of a Virgin, how he at last receives the infant Christ in the...

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  8. Apius and Virginia by ‘R B’ (198 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 87 min., 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

    Based on Chaucer’s ‘Physician’s Tale’, in which a Roman father beheads his only daughter to save her from the lust of a wicked judge, this 1560’s ‘heroine’ play is a quintessentially English...

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  9. That Girl from Andros (Terence in English) (198 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1993 sale: £20 +p&p

    The archetypal Roman comedy, the ‘Andria’ of Terence, in its earliest English verse translation (c1500) with songs and dances. Filmed at Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire.

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  10. Mankind (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Hayden
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION (possibly NFTVA), Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 64 min.

    A recording of a production by the London University Dramatic society of the morality play ‘Mankind’, which was written around 1475. It is the earliest surviving ‘interlude’, showing evidence of...

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