Description: Further DetailsTitle: Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic AnthologyCondition: NewSubtitle: The Grasshopper; Where’s the Cat?; The Colonel; PatienceISBN-10: 1350417777EAN: 9781350417779ISBN: 9781350417779Publisher: Methuen DramaFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/25/2024Description: From long-haired ‘Fleshly Poets’ to intense, ‘ultra pre-Raphaelite’ artists, few stylistic movements in the history of art and literature have provoked the imagination and indignation of British playwrights as much as the 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 the unorthodox, eccentric and highly theatrical proponents of the Aesthetic Movement. The ‘quite too utterly utter’ Apostles of this new school were satirized to such an extent that the Illustrated London News (1881) complained that the London stage was ‘thickly sown over with a crop of lilies and sunflowers’, with ‘aesthetes in every burlesque and comic opera produced’. This edited volume brings the four key plays satirizing the Aesthetic Movement together for the first time in an easily accessible format, allowing scholars and students to discover their secrets:The Grasshopper by John Hollingshead (Gaiety Theatre, 1877)Where’s The Cat? by James Albery (Criterion, 1880)The Colonel by F.C. Burnand (Prince of Wales’s Theatre, 1881) Patience by W.S. Gilbert (Opera Comique/Savoy, 1881)Including a brief introduction by Dr. Devon Cox, 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, Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology shines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British TheatreLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: John Hollingshead, James Albery, F.C. Burnand, W.S. GilbertContributor: Devon Cox (Edited by)Genre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: Methuen Drama Play CollectionsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology
Title: Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology
Subtitle: The Grasshopper; Where’s the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience
ISBN-10: 1350417777
EAN: 9781350417779
ISBN: 9781350417779
Release Date: 07/25/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Devon Cox (Edited by)
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Aesthetic Movement Satire: a Dramatic Anthology : The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; the Colonel; Patience
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Author: James Albery, W. S. Gilbert, F. C. Burnand, John Hollingshead
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Drama
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections
Format: Trade Paperback
