1st Edition
Gilbert and Sullivan Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
By Regina B. Oost
Copyright 2009
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan attracted and shaped the expectations of theatergoers. Her findings place the Savoy operas in the context of... Read more
Contents: Introduction: many contributors to a general result; West End theaters and Savoy audiences; The business of Gilbert and Sullivan; Shopping at the opera; Founding the family; 'Encore' means 'sing it again'; Tradition and the Savoyards; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Regina B. Oost is Chair of the Department of English and Professor of English at Wesleyan College, Georgia, USA.
'...a scholarly, accessible, coherently argued book which will be an important addition to Gilbert and Sullivan literature and to the wider field of nineteenth-century theatre studies.' Richard Foulkes, University of Leicester, UK 'As a sustained exploration of these stage works in the context of nineteenth century consumerism it has no rivals and is to be recommended for the insights it provides into the relationship of art and commerce.' Music and Letters 'Gilbert and Sullivan furnishes tons of useful information and in its final chapters convincingly demonstrates how the tightly constructed oeuvre build a national identity based on modernity's consumer orientatio - doing so by offering lively comforts, entertaining and mutually reinforcing.' Victorian Studies
