Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology: The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience by Hollingshead, John

Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology: The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350417762)

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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology: The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience by Hollingshead, John

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

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Aesthetic Movement Satire: A Dramatic Anthology: The Grasshopper; Where's the Cat?; The Colonel; Patience by Hollingshead, John

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

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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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)
Patienceby 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 Anthologyshines a light on this explosive flashpoint in British Theatre

Author: John Hollingshead, James Albery, F. C. Burnand
ISBN-10: 1350417769
ISBN-13: 9781350417762
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
By John Hollingshead
By John Hollingshead
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Dr Devon Cox is an art and theatre historian with a specialisation in the Aesthetic Movement. In 2015, he published a biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street, which was nominated for the prestigious William MB Berger Prize in British Art History. Between 2018 and 2020, he catalogued paintings in the collection of Mells Manor, Somerset for the Paul Mellon Centre's Collection and Display project. In 2022, he edited Constance Wilde's Autograph Book, 1886-1896 for the Oscar Wilde Society. He is currently working on a new biography of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) to be published in 2025.

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