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74 relations: Ancient Greek literature, Aristophanes, BBC, BBC One, BBC Two, Beeston, Leeds, Bohdan Zadura, Bolsheviks, Channel 4, Conservative Party (UK), Corfu, Costa Book Awards, County Borough of Leeds, David Cohen Prize, Early day motion, Edith Hall, European Prize for Literature, Film-poem, Fram (play), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, George Cukor, Gerald Howarth, Harrison Birtwistle, Heinrich Heine, Holbeck, Independent Broadcasting Authority, Iraq War, Jean Racine, Jocelyn Herbert, Le roi s'amuse, Leeds, Leeds Grammar School, Lethe, Lysistrata, Melvyn Bragg, Member of parliament, Middle English, Molière, Mystery play, Natural World (TV series), Norman Buchan, Northern England, Northern Rock Foundation, Oresteia, Oxford Brookes University, PEN Pinter Prize, Peter Symes, Phèdre, Polish language, Politics, Religion & Ideology, ..., Popescu Prize, Prometheus (1998 film), Richard Eyre, Roger Griffin, Royal National Theatre, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, The Blasphemers' Banquet, The Blue Bird (1976 film), The Gaze of the Gorgon, The Guardian, The Labourers of Herakles, The Misanthrope, The Mysteries, The Old Vic, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Tragedy, UK miners' strike (1984–85), University of Leeds, V (poem), Victor Hugo, Wakefield, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Yan Tan Tethera (opera), York Mystery Plays. Expand index (24 more) »
Ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης,; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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Beeston, Leeds
Beeston is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located about 2 miles (3 km) south-south west of the city centre.
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Bohdan Zadura
Bohdan Zadura (born February 18, 1945 in Puławy) is a Polish poet, translator and literary critic.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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Corfu
Corfu or Kerkyra (translit,; translit,; Corcyra; Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
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Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.
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County Borough of Leeds
The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974.
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David Cohen Prize
The David Cohen Prize for Literature (est. 1993) is a biennial British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language.
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Early day motion
An early day motion (EDM), in the Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by Members of Parliament that formally calls for debate "on an early day".
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Edith Hall
Edith Hall (born 1959) is a British scholar of classics, specialising in Ancient Greek Literature and cultural history, and Professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College, London.
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European Prize for Literature
European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) is a European-wide literary award sponsored by the city of Strasbourg with support from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France).
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Film-poem
The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary) is a label first applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II.
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Fram (play)
Fram (Norwegian for Forward) is a 2008 play by Tony Harrison.
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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber.
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George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director.
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Gerald Howarth
Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth (born 12 September 1947), known as Gerald Howarth, is a British Conservative Party politician.
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Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, (born 15 July 1934) is a British composer.
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Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.
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Holbeck
Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Independent Broadcasting Authority
The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.
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Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
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Jean Racine
Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
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Jocelyn Herbert
Jocelyn Herbert RDI (22 February 1917 – 6 May 2003) was a highly influential British stage designer.
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Le roi s'amuse
Le roi s'amuse (literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Leeds Grammar School
Leeds Grammar School was an independent school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Lethe
In Greek mythology, Lethe (Greek: Λήθη, Lḗthē) was one of the five rivers of the underworld of Hades.
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Lysistrata
Lysistrata (or; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, "Army Disbander") is a comedy by Aristophanes.
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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.
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Mystery play
Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.
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Natural World (TV series)
Natural World is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series.
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Norman Buchan
Norman Findlay Buchan (27 October 1922 – 23 November 1990) was a Labour Party politician, who was on the left-wing of the party, and represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983; until his death in 1990.
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Northern England
Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.
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Northern Rock Foundation
Northern Rock Foundation was an independent charity and company limited by guarantee in the United Kingdom.
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Oresteia
The Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytaemnestra, the murder of Clytaemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and pacification of the Erinyes.
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Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England.
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PEN Pinter Prize
The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC).
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Peter Symes
Peter J. Symes (born 1957) is an Australian researcher into paper money.
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Phèdre
Phèdre (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski or simply polski) is a West Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and is the native language of the Poles.
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Politics, Religion & Ideology
Politics, Religion & Ideology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the politics of illiberal ideologies, including the impact of religious radicalism.
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Popescu Prize
The Popescu Prize is a biennial poetry award established in 1983.
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Prometheus (1998 film)
Prometheus is a 1998 film-poem created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow in the role of Prometheus.
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Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.
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Roger Griffin
Roger D. Griffin (born 31 January 1948) is a British professor of modern history and political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England.
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Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.
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Temple of Artemis, Corfu
The Temple of Artemis is an Archaic Greek temple in Corfu, Greece, built in around 580 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra (or Corcyra), in what is known today as the suburb of Garitsa.
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The Blasphemers' Banquet
The Blasphemers' Banquet is a film-poem created in 1989 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines censorship arising from religious issues.
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The Blue Bird (1976 film)
The Blue Bird is a 1976 American/Soviet fantasy film directed by George Cukor.
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The Gaze of the Gorgon
The Gaze of the Gorgon is a film-poem created in 1992 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines the politics of conflict in the 20th century using the Gorgon and her petrifying gaze as a metaphor for the actions of the elites during wars and other crises and the muted response and apathy these traumatic events generate among the masses seemingly petrified by modern Gorgons gazing at them from pediments constructed by the elites.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Labourers of Herakles
The Labourers of Herakles is a 1995 play created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison.
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The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover (Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière.
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The Mysteries
The Mysteries is a version of the medieval English mystery plays first presented at London's National Theatre in 1977.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.
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The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus is a 1990 play by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison.
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Tragedy
Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
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UK miners' strike (1984–85)
The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.
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University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a Russell Group university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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V (poem)
"V" (sometimes styled "v.") is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985.
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Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.
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Wakefield
Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.
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Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.
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Yan Tan Tethera (opera)
Yan Tan Tethera is a chamber opera (subtitled A Mechanical Pastoral) by the English composer Harrison Birtwistle with a libretto by the poet Tony Harrison, based on a supernatural folk tale about two shepherds, their sheep, and the Devil.
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York Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays, more properly the York Corpus Christi Plays, are a Middle English cycle of 48 mystery plays or pageants covering sacred history from the creation to the Last Judgment.
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