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Up Pompeii is a 1971 film and the first film spin-off of Up Pompeii. It stars Frankie Howerd, Patrick Cargill, Bill Fraser, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Lance Percival, Adrienne Posta, Bernard Bresslaw, Roy Hudd, and Julie Ege. Lurcio (Howerd) — slave of Ludicrus Sextus (Hordern), Ammonia (Murray), Erotica (Madeline Smith), and Nausius ...
Jul 22, 2015 · But the fact that Fanny Hill was written from prison validates the theory that prison writing has produced historically notable literature. American poet E. E. Cummings was imprisoned in 1917 in France on suspicion of espionage for his anti-war sentiments. While there he wrote an autobiographical novel called The Enormous Room. Cummings' novel ...
The cast is pretty well unchanged from the TV Series too. Frankie Howerd (Lurcio) based his whole theatrical career on dodgy double intendres and this film is full of them. His habit of making asides directly to the audience via the camera is hilarious. In fact, most of the comedy lies in those two attributes.
Mar 28, 2017 · While all of Foucault’s texts rapidly impacted upon the worlds of literary theory and other methodologies within the humanities – especially once he started to visit the US in the early 1970s – it is perhaps his Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (1975), translated in 1977 as Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, that has continued to inspire literary critics.
Thomas S. Freeman. Prison writing became a characteristic cultural form of early modern. abstract England. Its popularity rested on an increase in the number of prisoners, many of them literate elites imprisoned for politics, religion, or debt; an expanded audi-ence of political and religious sympathizers; and the growth of the book trade.
Up Pompeii. 1970s British sitcom ostensibly about the humorous misadventures of a Roman slave, Lurcio, before Vesuvius erupted. In reality, it was merely a vehicle for comedian and actor Frankie Howerd, who would frequently drop out of character to speak to the audience and complain about the quality of the scripts, plots, acting, and even the ...
Feb 17, 2015 · From Martin Luther King’s immortal jailhouse letter to a classic of philosophy completed on death row, get the facts on eight of the most influential and incendiary works written from behind ...
