Gilbert and Sullivan : gender, genre, parody / Carolyn Williams.
Williams, Carolyn, 1950-
2011
ML410.S95 W45 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Gilbert and Sullivan : gender, genre, parody / Carolyn Williams.
Author
Williams, Carolyn, 1950-
ISBN
9780231148047 (alk. paper)
0231148046 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xix, 454 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
ML410.S95 W45 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.1/20922
Summary
An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Gender and culture.
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Genres. Outmoding classical extravaganza, Englishing opéra bouffe : Thespis ; Gender in the breach : Trial by jury ; English magic, English intoxication : The sorcerer ; "Never mind the why and wherefore" : the parody of nautical melodrama in H.M.S. Pinafore ; Recollecting illegitimacy : The pirates of Penzance
Genders. New light on changing gender norms : Patience ; Transforming the fairy genes : Women on top in Iolanthe ; War between the sexes : Princess Ida
Cultures. Estrangement and familiarity : The Mikado ; Mixing it up : gothic and nautical melodrama in Ruddigore ; The past is a foreign country : The yeomen of the guard ; Imaginary republicanism : The gondoliers ; Capitalism and colonialism : Utopia, limited ; Continental recollections : The grand duke
After Gilbert and Sullivan : the momentum of parody.

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