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.
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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the 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 several other novels. Jerome was inspired by his older sister Blandina's love for the theatre and he decided to try his hand at acting in 1877, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe that produced plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the actors' own meager resources - Jerome was penniless at the time - to purchase costumes and props. After three years on the road with no evident success, the 21-year-old Jerome decided that he had enough of stage life and sought other occupations. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years, he was a school teacher, a packer and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage - and Off (1885), a comic memoir of his experiences with the acting troupe, followed by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of humorous essays which had previously appeared in the newly founded magazine, Home Chimes, the same magazine that would later serialize Three Men in a Boat.