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Libro 48 de 70: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Moore, Richard

 
9781032092256: W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy: The Progress of Fun (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Sinopsis

The Progress of Fun considers principally the case of W.S. Gilbert, challenging the frequently held view that he is pre-eminently a typical Victorian. A prelude to the second volume (Pipes and Tabors).

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Richard Moore is a University lecturer and teacher in adult education with a Cambridge University doctorate on the subject of Christianity and Paganism in the Victorian Novel. He has at various points been a Civil Service executive, a Vice Principal in secondary education, and a leader of seminars on topics as diverse as Roman Comedy; the Puritans and Creative Literature; literary Waste Lands; and the Literature of Gardens. He is also a creative writer, responsible for over a hundred dramas and numerous libretti for comic operas and musical farces, several of them performed in the schools and colleges where he has taught.

Currently Richard Moore is preparing more work on the Victorian Theatre while running seminars and literary courses in Newcastle, Berwick upon Tweed and Pitlochry. His other interests are nature conservation, social and dynastic history, and the detective fiction of the Golden Age. He lives in the Scottish Borders, alternating with the southern Highlands and is a keen follower of Scottish countryside interests.

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9781138311084: W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy: The Progress of Fun: 1 (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

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ISBN 10:  1138311081 ISBN 13:  9781138311084
Editorial: Routledge, 2019
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