Stage-Land (eBook, PDF) - K. Jerome, Jerome
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This is a very funny book that describes all the stock characters of 19th century melodrama with jerome's dry comments on the various characters. there are chApters on the Hero, the heroine, the Villain, the Adventuress, the Good Old Man, the Comic Man, the servant Girl, the lawyer, etc etc. even if you have never seen a melodrama of the type drescribed, it is very easy to imagine what they were like from reading this book and, like jerome, revel in the absurdities. for example,discussing the Villain, he says " he wears a clean collar, and smokes a cigarette: that is how we know he is a…mehr

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This is a very funny book that describes all the stock characters of 19th century melodrama with jerome's dry comments on the various characters. there are chApters on the Hero, the heroine, the Villain, the Adventuress, the Good Old Man, the Comic Man, the servant Girl, the lawyer, etc etc. even if you have never seen a melodrama of the type drescribed, it is very easy to imagine what they were like from reading this book and, like jerome, revel in the absurdities. for example,discussing the Villain, he says " he wears a clean collar, and smokes a cigarette: that is how we know he is a villain. In real life, it is often difficult to tell a villain from an honest man, and this gives rise to mistakes: but on the stage, as we have said, villains wear clean collars and smoke cigarettes, and thus all fear of blunder is avoided." And pf the heor he says " The Stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a corpse, in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted." Contents The hero -- The villain -- The heroine -- The comic man -- The lawyer -- The adventuress -- The servant-girl -- The child -- The comic lovers -- The peasants -- The good old man -- The Irishman -- The detective -- The sailor.
Autorenporträt
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist best known for his comedic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and a number of novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, while he was able to attend grammar school, his family and he struggled financially as a young man working in numerous industries. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, which led to success. He married in 1888, and their honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he authored Three Men in a Boat shortly after. He continued to write fiction, nonfiction, and plays for the next three decades, but never achieved the same degree of popularity. Jerome was born in Belsize House on 1 Caldmore Road in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (after known as Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher with an interest in building. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and a brother, Milton, who died at a young age.