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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert - Pipes and Tabors (Hardcover)
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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert - Pipes and Tabors (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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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. To consider a writer not so much by a study of
individual works as by threads of linking generic modes tells us a
great deal about cultural interconnections and the richly textured
nature of theatrical experience. Pipes and Tabors offers a tapestry
of overlapping genres and treatments, showing not just the design
of the finished products but the shreds and patches which form the
underside of the weave. According to Dorothy L. Sayers, life itself
offers us the apparent loose ends of a design which will only be
revealed from the front after death. In terms of Gilbertian comedy,
we are privileged to be able to track both the effort of the weave
and the skill of the finished product. On the way we will also
discover some new links and sub-text implications about other 19th
century denigrated groups which were buried from sight for too
long.
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