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  1. Canterbury Tales, The (2001)

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £14.99

    Pasolini takes the role of Chaucer in a vivid and grotesque adaptation of some of Chaucer’s bawdy tales. The dual format Blu-Ray edition includes an alternative English-language version presented with...

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  2. Canterbury Tales, The (Animated) (2001)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 mins each part), £9.49 each

    An animated series of the tales made for television, offering the opportunity to hear an authentic Middle English version as well as a modern English version of the same text. Jonathan Myerson’s adaptation...

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  3. Canterbury Tales, The (1999 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Introduces Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales, featuring dramatised extracts with commentary; interpretation, comment and analysis, by Christiania Whitehead and Dr Peter Mack of the University of Warwick.

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  4. Dante: The ‘Divine Comedy’ (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Italian studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to ‘The Divine Comedy’, containing visual intepretations by the Topiary Dance Group; the Doré illustrations of 1861; location footage from Florence; discussions of themes, plot and...

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  5. Decameron, The (1970 Video)

    aka: Decamarone, Il

    Director
    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Producer
    Alberto Grimaldi
    Subject
    Italian studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    An uncut version of Pasolini’s film adaptation of ten stories from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, his 14th-century reworking of a hundred bawdy Italian folk-tales.

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  6. Chaucer and the Difficulty of Medieval Poetry (197)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

    One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between D. Pearsall and E. Salter of the University of York.

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  7. Some Problems in Reading the Canterbury Tales (197)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

    One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between P. Brown of Kent University and D. Pearsall of York University

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  8. Chaucer: Introduction to the Canterbury Tales

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 160 mins approx), £20.00

    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; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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  9. Chaucer: The Knight, The Clerk and the Franklin

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

    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; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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  10. Search for the Lost Manuscript: Julian of Norwich

    Subject
    History; Literature; Religious studies

    Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of Revelations of Divine Love, the first book ever written in English by a woman - Julian of Norwich, in 1373 - and kept hidden for centuries.

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