The Love School
The Love School | |
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Holman Hunt caresses Annie Miller while painting The Light of the World | |
Created by | John Hale Ray Lawler Robin Chapman John Prebble |
Developed by | BBC Television |
Starring | Ben Kingsley Peter Egan |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producers | Piers Haggard John Glenister Robert Knights |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC2 |
Release | 22 January (1975-01-22) – 26 February 1975 (1975-02-26) |
The Love School (broadcast in the U.S. as The Brotherhood) is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman and John Prebble. It was directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. It was shown during January and February 1975.[1] It includes six episodes, each episode is 75 minutes in length.
The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics.[2] It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.[3] Until a few years ago, it appeared never to have been released on DVD anywhere in the world despite fans calling for such a release on IMDb and elsewhere. However, on 8 April 2019, the DVD of all six episodes was released thanks to the efforts of the team at Simply Media TV. The DVD consists of 2 discs in PAL format for region 2, with a total run time of 450 minutes.
Cast
- Peter Egan as John Everett Millais
- Ben Kingsley as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Bernard Lloyd as William Holman Hunt
- Gareth Hunt as Thomas Woolner
- Patricia Quinn as Elizabeth Siddal
- David Collings as John Ruskin
- Anne Kidd as Effie Gray
- Sheila White as Annie Miller
- Kenneth Colley as Edward Burne-Jones
- David Burke as William Morris
- Kika Markham as Jane Morris
- Malcolm Tierney as Ford Madox Brown
Episodes
# | Episode | Director | Screenwriter | Original airdate | |
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1 | "The Brotherhood" | Robert Knights | John Hale | 22 January 1975 (1975-01-22) | |
In 1848, social unrest abounds. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a secret group of young artists, forms in order to take on the sclerotic Royal Academy. The original three members are joined by four friends. | |||||
2 | "An Impeccable Elopement" | Piers Haggard | John Hale | 29 January 1975 (1975-01-29) | |
Art critic John Ruskin and his wife Effie travel to Scotland with John Everett Millais, one of leaders of the PRB. Millais falls in love with Effie and learns that the Ruskins' marriage is a sham. | |||||
3 | "Seeking the Bubbles" | Piers Haggard | Ray Lawler | 5 February 1975 (1975-02-05) | |
Millais has married Effie after the annulment of her first marriage. William Holman Hunt and Millais both become successful artists. | |||||
4 | "Remember Me" | John Glenister | Robin Chapman | 12 February 1975 (1975-02-12) | |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's life and relationships become complicated, especially after the tragic death of his wife Lizzie. | |||||
5 | "Beata Beatrix" | Piers Haggard | Robin Chapman | 19 February 1975 (1975-02-19) | |
Rossetti acquires a follower in William Morris but his life is troubled by drug addiction, and he becomes increasingly isolated. | |||||
6 | "The Artisan" | Piers Haggard | John Prebble | 26 February 1975 (1975-02-26) | |
Pre-Raphaelitism begins to disintegrate when William Morris adopts a new ideal in socialism. |
Notes
External links
- The Love School at IMDb
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artists and
figures
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- George Price Boyce
- John Brett
- Ford Madox Brown
- Lucy Madox Brown
- Richard Burchett
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Georgiana Burne-Jones
- James Campbell
- John Collier
- Charles Allston Collins
- Frank Cadogan Cowper
- Evelyn De Morgan
- Walter Deverell
- Henry Treffry Dunn
- William Dyce
- Henry Holiday
- Arthur Hughes
- Edward Robert Hughes
- Frederic Leighton
- Robert Braithwaite Martineau
- Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford
- William Morris
- Alexander Munro
- Joseph Noel Paton
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep
- Christina Rossetti
- John Ruskin
- Emma Sandys
- Frederick Sandys
- Thomas Seddon
- Elizabeth Siddal
- James Smetham
- Rebecca Solomon
- Simeon Solomon
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
- Marie Spartali Stillman
- John Melhuish Strudwick
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Henry Wallis
- John William Waterhouse
- William James Webbe
- William Lindsay Windus
well-known
works
(period and
post-period)
- Ophelia
- Christ in the House of His Parents
- A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
- Ecce Ancilla Domini
- Mariana
- The Light of the World
- Our English Coasts ('Strayed Sheep')
- The Scapegoat
- Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
- The Last of England
- Work
- The Awakening Conscience
- The Hireling Shepherd
- April Love
- Found
- Autumn Leaves
- Bocca Baciata
- Oxford Union murals
- Lady Lilith
- Roman Widow
- Mary Magdalene
- The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
- Morgan le Fay
- Beata Beatrix
- The Shadow of Death
- Proserpine
- A Vision of Fiammetta
- Pygmalion and the Image series
- The Beloved
- Cymon and Iphigenia
- King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
- The Day Dream
- The Golden Stairs
- Dante and Beatrice
- Love's Messenger
- The Magic Circle
- The Legend of Briar Rose
- The Lady of Shalott (Waterhouse)
- The Roses of Heliogabalus
- Lilith
- Eos
- Flaming June
- Hope
- Hylas and the Nymphs
- Lady Godiva
- The Love Potion
- The Lady of Shalott (Hunt)
- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
- The Germ
- Hogarth Club
- Morris & Co.
- Rossetti and His Circle (1922 book)
- Dante's Inferno (1967 film)
- The Love School (1975 series)
- Desperate Romantics (2009 series)
- Effie Gray (2014 film)