How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!
How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!

Author: Philip H. Dillard

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780810824454

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Identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.

Contradiction Contradicted
Contradiction Contradicted

Author: Andrew Crowther

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780838638392

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This book is a critical study of the dramatic works of W. S. Gilbert -- not only the famous libretti for other composers, but also his comedies and farces, his serious dramas, and his blank-verse plays. Aspects of his craft such as plot construction, lyric writing, and "stage management" (directing) are discussed. The bulk of the book explores the ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the plays, with particular attention to his concern with irony and inversion.

The Victorian Comic Spirit
The Victorian Comic Spirit

Author: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1351790528

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This title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.

Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan

Author: Carolyn Williams

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0231148054

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An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.

A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century Drama 1850-1900
A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 5, Late Nineteenth Century Drama 1850-1900

Author: Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 940

ISBN-13: 9780521058315

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.