Satire in the Works of W.S. Gilbert
Author: Dean Burton Farnsworth
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13:
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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert
Author: Richard Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1000699897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes to Joe Orton and beyond. Pipes and Tabors continues the story, covering the comedic experience differently by reference to genres. Here – treated in relation to a line of significant others – we discover how Gilbert responded to areas such as the Pastoral, the Irish drama, nautical scenarios, melodrama, sensation-theatre, the nonsensemode, pantomime spectaculars, fairy plays, and classical farce. Also included is a wider look at his relation to various European musical forms and (for instance) to the English line of wit and the Elizabethan pamphleteers. To consider a writer not so much by a study of individual works as by threads of linking generic modes tells us a great deal about cultural interconnections and the richly textured nature of theatrical experience. Pipes and Tabors offers a tapestry of overlapping genres and treatments, showing not just the design of the finished products but the shreds and patches which form the underside of the weave. According to Dorothy L. Sayers, life itself offers us the apparent loose ends of a design which will only be revealed from the front after death. In terms of Gilbertian comedy, we are privileged to be able to track both the effort of the weave and the skill of the finished product. On the way we will also discover some new links and sub-text implications about other 19th century denigrated groups which were buried from sight for too long.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: Carolyn Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0231148054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy
Author: Richard Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0429859619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The Progress of Fun considers principally the last of these areas, focussing on the case of W.S. Gilbert and challenging the frequently held view that he is pre-eminently a typical Victorian. This it does by tracing his roots back to Ancient Greek comedy and to the various comedic developments that have dominated Western Europe thereafter. Also included is a careful examination of the constraints and limitations that in various forms have long affected comedy-writing, and an evaluation of Gilbert’s particular skills and legacy within the on-going process. The whole is a suitable prelude to a second volume (Pipes and Tabors) which will consider Genre in W.S. Gilbert, again relating it to comedic precedents and the universally timeless within the particular.
How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!
Author: Philip H. Dillard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780810824454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.
Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology
Author: John Hollingshead
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-06-27
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1350417793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom long-haired 'Fleshly Poets' to intense, 'ultra pre-Raphaelite' artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the Aesthetic Movement. During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The 'quite too utterly utter' Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was 'thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers', with 'aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced'. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets: The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead (Gaiety Theatre, 1877) Where's The Cat? by James Albery (Criterion, 1880) The Colonel by F.C. Burnand (Prince of Wales's Theatre, 1881) Patience by W.S. Gilbert (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881) Including a brief introduction by Dr. Devon Cox, providing background and context to the dynamic, symbiotic relationship between the Aesthetic Movement and the British stage, and complete with biographical notes and an introduction to each play, Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre
A Most Ingenious Paradox
Author: Gayden Wren
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195301724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940
Author: Dennis Denisoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-16
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521024891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original and provocative 2001 study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to argue that mainstream society was enabled to accept the non-normative sexuality of the Aesthetic Movement chiefly through parody and self-parody. Highlighting Victorian popular culture, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds an important dimension to the theorisations of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized groups undermine the status quo. From W. S. Gilbert's drama and Vernon Lee and Christopher Isherwood's prose to George du Maurier's cartoons and Max Beerbohm's caricatures, Dennis Denisoff explores the parodies' interactions with the personae and texts of canonical authors such as Alfred Tennyson, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. In doing so, he considers the impact that these interactions had on modern ideas of gender, sexuality, taste and politics.
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: W. S. Gilbert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-09-28
Total Pages: 1137
ISBN-13: 3368304569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original.
Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies
Author: Peter Horton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0429627173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 2003 and selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the topic. The introductory essay by Julian Rushton considers some of the questions that are key to this area of study: what is the nineteenth century, what is British music, and did London influence the continent? The essays that follow are divided into broad thematic groups covering aspects of gender, church music, national identity, and local and national institutions. This collection illustrates that while nineteenth-century British music studies is still in its infancy as a field of research, it is one that is burgeoning and contributing to our understanding of British social and cultural life of the period.
