Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology - The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience

Few stylistic movements in the history of art and design have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the so-called Aesthetic Movement. During an intense and short-lived period from 1877 to 1881, the London stage saw fierce competition as playwrights and theatre managers raced to capture the zeitgeist, capitalizing on this unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical new movement and its ''apostles'' to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) observed that the London stage was ''thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers'' with ''aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced''.Starting with John Hollingshead''s farce, , at the Gaiety Theatre in 1877, this trend was built-upon by a quick succession of the plays including James Albery''s Where''s The Cat? (Criterion, 1880), F.C. Burnand''s The Colonel (Prince of Wales Theatre, 1880) and culminating in W.S. Gilbert''s Patience (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881)..This edited volume finally provides these four key Aesthetic Movement in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets. Including a brief introduction, providing background and context to the dynamic, symbiotic relationship between the Aesthetic Movement and the British stage, and complete with biographical notes and an introduction to each play, this collection shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Albery, Bur, F.C. Burnand, Burnand F.C., Devon Cox, W.S. Gilbert, John Hollingshead, Hollingshead John
• Mitarbeit: Devon Cox (Herausgeber), Cox Devon (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9781350417779
• ISBN: 978-1-350-41777-9
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 232 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Methuen Drama Play Collections
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays