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portada A Parody on Princess Ida: A Victorian Comic Opera Spoof of Women's Colleges, Mock-Heroic Verse, and the Battle of the Sexes
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
ISBN13
9788028341565

A Parody on Princess Ida: A Victorian Comic Opera Spoof of Women's Colleges, Mock-Heroic Verse, and the Battle of the Sexes

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Synopsis "A Parody on Princess Ida: A Victorian Comic Opera Spoof of Women's Colleges, Mock-Heroic Verse, and the Battle of the Sexes"

A Parody on Princess Ida is a compact comic reworking of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, translating its courtly romance, mock-heroic learning, and battle of the sexes into pointed burlesque. Dalziel preserves the recognizable machinery of the original-Princess Ida's academic separatism, sententious rhetoric, and absurd chivalric posturing-while sharpening it through topical wit, brisk verse, and a knowingly theatrical sense of incongruity. The piece belongs to the lively Victorian culture of operatic parody, in which popular entertainments were swiftly answered by pamphlet, stage sketch, and comic song. Little is securely known about D. Dalziel beyond the imprint attached to this parody, yet the work suggests an author deeply conversant with contemporary musical theatre and its audience's habits of quotation. His choice of Princess Ida was shrewd: Gilbert's already ironic treatment of women's education, masculinity, and medievalism invited further comic inversion, and Dalziel exploits that doubleness with the confidence of a practiced parodist. Readers interested in Gilbert and Sullivan, Victorian popular culture, or the mechanics of parody will find this brief work rewarding. It is best approached not as a rival to its source, but as evidence of its immediate cultural afterlife.

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