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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert: Pipes and Tabors

Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert: Pipes and Tabors

Moore, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature, Book 2

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0367366215
ISBN13: 9780367366216
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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