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

ISBN-13: 9781032086804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 348 str.

Richard Moore

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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.

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Introduction : Intention and Parameters.



Part One : Background and Developments



Part Two : Genres and Their Treatment :



a) Masque, Dumb-Show and the Pastoral



b) Irish Drama: Examples from Boucicault and Elsewhere



c) Opera, Tragedy and Politics : The Burlesque Response



d) Nautical Burlesque



c) Burlesque Melodrama and Gothic Parody



d) Burlesque Sensation



e) Nonsense and Surrealism.



f) Pantomime



g) Genres of the Supernatural : Fairies, Diabolism and the Realm of Magic



h) Farce as a genre and expression of the Comic Spirit.





Part Three :



Other genres and Concluding Observations.

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Richard Moore is a graduate of Cambridge University with a doctorate in Christianity and Paganism in Victorian Fiction and a Certificate in Education (Distinction). He works as a free-lance teacher in Higher Education and as a creative writer. Currently he is working on a libretto based on Gilbert’s play Foggerty’s Fairy, for which any composer-interest would be welcome. His other interests are nature conservation, exploring Scotland’s more remote places, and following his enthusiasm for a wide range of historical, literary and musical interests – the last especially including opera, oratorio and ragtime.