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In this programme Brian Stone sets out to help students with a difficult kind of poetry - the satirical poetry written in England between Hall and Jonson.
In this programme Brian Stone sets out to help students with a difficult kind of poetry - the satirical poetry written in England between Hall and Jonson.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 31 |
| Recording date: | 1972-01-31 |
| First transmission date: | 05-09-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:17:59 |
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| Producer: | Nuala O'Faolain |
| Contributors: | Dennis McCarthy; Brian Stone; Gary Watson |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | King Lear; Satirical Poetry |
| Footage description: | In this programme Brian Stone sets out to help students with a difficult kind of poetry - the satirical poetry written in England between Hall and Jonson. An understanding of it is helped in two ways: professional readers make more sense of this complex poetry, to the ear, than is immediately accessible to a student from a printed page; secondly, of course, Brian Stone sets the satirical impulse in its aesthetic and social context. He identifies themes and devices common to the satirists of this time, and he also indicates the heights to which satire could reach by including one of the greatest speeches of King Lear. He ends with the Jonson sonnet 'On Poet-ape' which warns the modern student, as it warned the original readers, of the need for an alert and critical response to contemporary literature. |
| Master spool number: | TLN05FM222J |
| Production number: | TLN05FM222J |
| Available to public: | no |
