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Gilbert and Sullivan - Gender, Genre, Parody (Hardcover)
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Gilbert and Sullivan - Gender, Genre, Parody (Hardcover)
Series: Gender and Culture Series
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Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert
Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were
the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural
obsessions. Gilbert and Sullivan's productions always rose to the
level of social commentary, despite being impertinent, absurd, or
inane. Some viewers may take them straight, but what looks like
sexism or stereotype was actually a clever strategy of critique.
Parody was a powerful weapon in the culture wars of
late-nineteenth-century England, and with defiantly in-your-face
sophistication, Gilbert and Sullivan proved that popular culture
can be intellectually as well as politically challenging. Carolyn
Williams underscores Gilbert and Sullivan's creative and acute
understanding of cultural formations. Her unique perspective shows
how anxiety drives the troubled mind in the Lord Chancellor's
"Nightmare Song" in Iolanthe and is vividly realized in the sexual
and economic phrasing of the song's patter lyrics. The modern body
appears automated and performative in the "Junction Song" in
Thespis, anticipating Charlie Chaplin's factory worker in Modern
Times. Williams also illuminates the use of magic in The Sorcerer,
the parody of nautical melodrama in H.M.S. Pinafore, the ridicule
of Victorian aesthetic and idyllic poetry in Patience, the
autoethnography of The Mikado, the role of gender in Trial by Jury,
and the theme of illegitimacy in The Pirates of Penzance. With her
provocative reinterpretation of these artists and their work,
Williams recasts our understanding of creativity in the late
nineteenth century.
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