"Deep Play": John Gay and the Invention of ModernityUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 322 pàgines "Deep Play" examines the emergence of modern self- and social-consciousness in eighteenth-century Britain as an awareness of class and culture. It examines popular ballads and songs, country dances, catches, mumming plays, beliefs and sayings, fables, stories, and legends as these plebeian cultural materials are brought by Gay to comment on "polite" opera, drama, and literature. Illustrated. |
Continguts
| 27 | |
| 48 | |
Apollo Bowzybeus and Molly Mog Popular Culture Print Markets and Oral Traditions | 71 |
Virgil Upended Literary Tradition Mock Pastoral and Social Rank | 88 |
Mapping the New Order Rank and Mobility Gender and Sexuality Culture and Nature | 115 |
Village Mumming on an Urban Stage The WhatdYeCallIt and Three Hours After Marriage | 117 |
Opera Gender and Social Strata Gay and Handels Acis and Galatea | 141 |
Popular Songs and the Politics of Heroism The Beggars Operas | 162 |
Country Dancing and the Satire of Empire in Polly | 193 |
Sexuality the Middling Sort and the Invention of Camp Achilles in Petticoats | 212 |
Lessons of the Natural World from Gay to William Blake The Animal Fables | 238 |
Epilogue | 271 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 305 |
Index | 312 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
Achilles Acis and Galatea allusions aria audience Ayckbourn ballad operas Beggar's Opera bourgeois Bowzybeus Brecht broadsides burlesque century character comic context conventional country dance critics critique cultural D'Urfey D'Urfey's deep play Deidamia Diag drama Dryden's Dugaw dynamics echo eclogue eighteenth eighteenth-century English engraving female warrior figure forms Fossile Gay's Fables Gay's play Gay's satire gender Handel Havel hero heroic heroism homoeroticism Hours After Marriage identifies illustration for fable ironic irony Jenny John Gay John Gay's Johnson Kitty literary Lockit London Stage Lycomedes Macheath metaleptic mock modern moral morris dance Nokes parodic pastoral Peachum play's Plotwell poem poet poetry political Polly Polly's Polyphemus Pope portrait preoccupation Pyrrha rank reference resonant Rural Sports scene Scriblerians sexual Shepherd's Week sings social Squire Statius story themes Thomas Thomas D'Urfey Threepenny Opera tion tradition tune Virgil voice vols Walpole What-d'Ye-Call-It William William Andrews Clark Winton women
Passatges populars
Pàgina 116 - 'How can they say that Nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep?
Pàgina 261 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Pàgina 71 - Oh ! where shall I my true love find ? Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true, If my sweet William sails among the crew?
Pàgina 18 - Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.
Pàgina 115 - 'WAS when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring. All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook.
Pàgina 40 - Not far from that most celebrated place, Where angry Justice shows her awful face ; Where little villains must submit to fate, That great ones may enjoy the world in state ; There stands a dome, majestic to the sight, And sumptuous arches bear its oval height ; A golden globe, placed high with artful skill, Seems, to the distant sight, a gilded pill...
Pàgina 240 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day...
Pàgina 98 - But I, alas ! hard fortune's utmost scorn, Who ne'er knew parent, was an orphan born ! Some boys are rich by birth beyond all wants, Belov'd by uncles, and kind good old aunts ; When time comes round, a Christmas-box they bear.
Referències a aquest llibre
Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British Culture ... Frank Palmeri Previsualització limitada - 2006 |
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the ... Steve Newman Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |