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The Anatomist may refer to: Film and theatre. The Anatomist, a 1696 play by Edward Ravenscroft ; Several fictionalized accounts of the Burke and Hare murders, including: A 1930 play by James Bridie, and subsequent 1937 television treatment; A 1939 film adaptation of Bridie's play, starring Bruce Seton; A 1948 London stage play ...
13 apr 2020 · An early TV movie, shot under the aegis of the busy Harry Alan Towers, adapted (minimally) by director Dennis Vance from James Bridie’s play about Dr Knox, the patron of Burke and Hare. The old warhorse piece was first done for…
James Bridie (3 January 1888 in ... He came to prominence with his comic play The Anatomist (1931), ... predecessor of today's Glasgow Film Theatre.
With Patrick Stewart, Lorna Heilbron, Elizabeth Millbank, Barry McGinn. Dr. Knox is a brilliant anatomist and he needs dead bodies to work on, whatever the law says. Burke and Hare can provide them.
- Julian Amyes
- 1980-09
- Drama
- James Bridie, Ronald Mavor
This chapter focuses on James Bridie and his 1930s play, The Anatomist Bridie scripted here a Shavian dilemma in direct opposition to the melodramatic discourse that had built over the previous century. He represented the doctor as superman, but society as perplexed, suffering, and responsible.
1939 BBC studio production of James Bridie’s dark comedy The Anatomist. A dark comedy set in Victorian England, the play concerns the famous anatomist Dr Knox and the grave robbers Burke and Hare, and tells the story of the West Port murders. Premiered in Edinburgh at the Lyceum in 1930; transferred to London in 1931.
James Bridie (pseudonimo di Osborne Henry Mavor) (Glasgow, 3 gennaio 1888 – Edimburgo, 29 gennaio 1951) è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo scozzese, sceneggiatore e medico chirurgo, assunse lo pseudonimo dal nome di suo nonno e cognome di sua nonna
