Ws Gilbert And The Context Of Comedy

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429859619
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To 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.

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916495890
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pleasant Institution written by Richard Moore and published by . This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - one of four written by the author about the development of Western comedy and Victorian music theatre - is a wide-ranging and authoritative examination of the key comic works of the famous dramatist W.S. Gilbert. Remembered today primarily for his partnership with Sir Arthur Sullivan and the creation of the brilliant and enduringly popular 'Savoy' operas, Gilbert was in fact a prolific author of literary works of all genres: plays, libretti, short stories, poetry (including nonsense verse) and ballads. Indeed, his short stories and stand-alone comedy lyrics are often more anarchically sharp than most of the libretti derived from, or linked with, them. The book begins with a general survey of background, methodology and techniques, followed by detailed analysis of some of the works according to category: his 'non-Sullivan' plays; five of the Savoy Operas (H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience, Iolanthe, Princess Ida and The Grand Duke); nonsense verse; short stories; and finally the Bab Ballads. The author's aim is to explore what, in comedy terms, is meant by the category 'Gilbertian', placing Gilbert's unique contribution to the history and development of comedic art.

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000699897
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Author : W.S. Gilbert
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724778
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaged written by W.S. Gilbert and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, is a farcical comedy that has long lived in the literary shadows – although wildly neglected today, the play influenced literary names as great as George Bernard Shaw, and directly inspired Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Centring on a rich young man’s search for a wife and his uncle and best friend’s attempts to hinder him, the play toys with conventional notions of love and sincerity. In this edition, which also contains notes and an essay by the undisputed authority on W.S. Gilbert, Andrew Crowther, Engaged deserves to step out into the spotlight once more.

Author : Isaac Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Wm. S. Gilbert written by Isaac Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Swallow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350101532
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristophanic Humour written by Peter Swallow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy – what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes' humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion of Aristophanes therefore needs to take into account the ways in which his humour actually works. This question is addressed in two ways. The first half of the volume offers an in-depth discussion of humour theory – a field heretofore largely overlooked by classicists and Aristophanists – examining various theoretical models within the specific context of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays. In the second half, contributors explore Aristophanic humour more practically, examining how specific linguistic techniques and performative choices affect the reception of humour, and exploring the range of subjects Aristophanes tackles as vectors for his comedy. A focus on performance shapes the narrative, since humour lives or dies on the stage – it is never wholly comprehensible on the page alone.

Author : George Jean Nathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedians All written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. S. Gilbert
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Plays [First Series] written by W. S. Gilbert and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator. This book is a collection of some of his most renowned plays. The volume contains: The Wicked World, Pygmalion and Galatea, Charity, The Princess, The Palace of Truth, and Trial by Jury. All of which showcase magic, wonder, and are able to transport readers as well as those lucky enough to witness live performances of his work to a fantastical version of the past.

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780860513377
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his humorous operettas and short stories, W. S. Gilbert also wrote stories based on his life, including the biographical "My Maiden Brief" and "The Lady in the Plaid Shawl", fantastic fairy stories, and thoughtful short stories, as "Jones' VIctoria Cross" and "Diamonds", here included.

Author : Thomas A. Greenfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Musicals in Context written by Thomas A. Greenfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical. With the hit musical Hamilton (2015) captivating audiences and reshaping the way early U.S. history is taught and written about, this book offers insight into an array of musicals that explore U.S. history. The work provides a synopsis, overview of critical and audience reception, and historical context and analysis for each of 20 musicals selected for the unique and illuminating way they present the American story on the stage. Specifically, this volume explores musicals that have centered their themes, characters, and plots on some aspect of America's complex and ever-changing history. Each in its own way helps us rediscover pivotal national crises, key political decisions, defining moral choices, unspeakable and unresolved injustices, important and untold stories, defeats suffered, victories won in the face of monumental adversity, and the sacrifices borne publicly and privately in the process of creating the American narrative, one story at a time. Students will come away from the volume armed with the critical thinking skills necessary to discern fact from fiction in U.S. history.