Richard Moore

Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert (eBook, PDF)

Pipes and Tabors

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000699418
• Artikelnr.: 57997673

Autorenporträt

Richard Moore is a graduate of Cambridge University with a doctorate in Christianity and Paganism in Victorian Fiction and a Certificate in Education (Distinction). He works as a free-lance teacher in Higher Education and as a creative writer. Currently he is working on a libretto based on Gilbert's play Foggerty's Fairy, for which any composer-interest would be welcome. His other interests are nature conservation, exploring Scotland's more remote places, and following his enthusiasm for a wide range of historical, literary and musical interests - the last especially including opera, oratorio and ragtime.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : Intention and Parameters.
Part One : Background and Developments
Part Two : Genres and Their Treatment :
a) Masque, Dumb-Show and the Pastoral
b) Irish Drama: Examples from Boucicault and Elsewhere
c) Opera, Tragedy and Politics : The Burlesque Response
d) Nautical Burlesque
c) Burlesque Melodrama and Gothic Parody
d) Burlesque Sensation
e) Nonsense and Surrealism.
f) Pantomime
g) Genres of the Supernatural : Fairies, Diabolism and the Realm of Magic
h) Farce as a genre and expression of the Comic Spirit.
Part Three :
Other genres and Concluding Observations.