The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical
Robert Gordon, "The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical "
English | ISBN: 0199988749 | 2016 | 776 pages | EPUB, PDF | 43 MB + 59 MB
English | ISBN: 0199988749 | 2016 | 776 pages | EPUB, PDF | 43 MB + 59 MB
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence.
After a consideration of how John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) created a prototype for eighteenth-century ballad opera, the book focuses on the use of song in early nineteenth century theatre, followed by a sociocultural analysis of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan; it then examines Edwardian and interwar musical comedies and revues as well as the impact of Rodgers and Hammerstein on the West End, before analysing the new forms of the postwar British musical from
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