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

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

Hollingshead, John
Albery, James
Burnand, F. C.

Hardcover

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

Plays

ISBN10: 1350417769
ISBN13: 9781350417762
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 25 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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)

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