The Victorian Clown – Buch gebraucht kaufen

9781107666672

(ISBN-10: 1107666678)

wie neu

15 x 23

273

450 g

Cambridge

Taschenbuch

Englisch

The Victorian Clown is a microhistory of raid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde's account of his young life with the famous Hengler's Circus in the 1850s and Thomas Lawrence's 1871 gagbook - offer unique, unmediated access to the grass roots of popular entertainment. Through them this book explores the role of the circus clown at the height of equestrian entertainment in Britain, when the comic managed audience attention for the riders and acrobats, parodying their skills in his own tumbling and contortionisin, and also offered a running commentary on the times through his own 'wheezes' - stand-up comedy sets. Plays in the ring connect the circus to the stage, and since both these men were also comic singers, their careers give a sharp insight into popular music just as it was being transformed by the new institution of music hall.

Clown, Zirkus, Music Hall, Theatergeschichte, Unterhaltung, Großbritannien, Viktorianisches Zeitalter

2014

19.03.2020

BN0677