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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / BBC Productions ; written & presented by Simon Armitage ; produced and directed by Tim Dunn.
LIBRA DVD 022 595
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Gawain and the Grene Knight.
- Gawain (Legendary character).
- Gawain.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Knights and knighthood--Poetry.
- Knights and knighthood.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Glasgow?] : BBC ; Mississauga, ON : McNabb Connolly [distributor], [2009]
- Language Note:
- In English; a few selections of the poem are read in Middle English, but most are read in a modern translation.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author. The poem has got just about everything -- it is an action-packed adventure, a ghost story, a steamy romance, a morality tale and the world's first eco-poem. Armitage follows in the footsteps of the poem's hero, Gawain, through some of Britain's most beautiful and mystical landscapes and reveals why an absurd tale of a knight beheading a green giant is as relevant and compelling today as when it was written."--Container.
- Participant:
- Presenter, Simon Armitage.
- Credits:
- Camera, Patrick Acum; editor, Joanna Crickmay; researcher, Katie Greening.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of a documentary motion picture originally broadcast in 2009.
- Running time on container: 50 minutes.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- OCLC:
- 660171890
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