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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

Aesthetic Movement Satire A Dramatic Anthology

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 7/25/2024
      ISBN-13 9781350417779
      978-1350417779
      ISBN-10 1350417777
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      Book Synopsis

      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

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