Mr. Punch At The Play

About this eBook

Editor

Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949

Title

Mr. Punch at the Play: Humours of Music and the Drama

Credits

Produced by Neville Allen, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Theater -- Great Britain -- Humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36529

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36529

Release Date

June 27, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. — PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR — MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY
2. 2.MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY — HUMOURS OF MUSIC AND THE DRAMA — THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD — THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
3. 3.BEFORE THE CURTAIN
4. 4.MR. PUNCH AT THE PLAY
5. 5.SOMETHING FOR THE MONEY — The Drama. — TRUE APPRECIATION — ON A DRAMATIC AUTHOR
6. 6.THE MANAGER'S COMPLAINT — A First Night. — "The Desire of the Moth for the Star. — The Counter-Check Quarrelsome. — Sweeping Assertion.
7. 7.DRAMATIC NOTES OF THE FUTURE — MODERN IMPRESSIONIST ART. A MUSICAL COMEDY — AT THE PREMIÈRE — THE BILL OF THE PLAY — Amenities of the Profession. — THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN — Private Theatricals. — An Infant Roscius. — A Soliloquy. — "Shakspeare and the first Quart O" — "Shakspeare and the last Quart O"
8. 8.BY DEPUTY — The Music-hall — Screaming Farcical Comedy. — A Melodrama at the "Surrey". — A pathetic "Comedy-Drama." — Another. — The Opera. — A patriotic Drama at the "National Theatre". — And — Three acts — of Henrik Ibsen. — The deplorable issue. — "MOST MUSICAL, MOST MELANCHOLY" — MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. SENSATION OPERA. — " Cross Old Thing! " — Our Theatricals. — Technical. — A Double Disappointment. — Modest Appeal.
9. 9.A MODERN REHEARSAL
10. 10.NEO-DRAMATIC NURSERY RHYME
11. 11.HINTS TO AMATEUR PLAYWRIGHTS. — QUITE OF HER OPINION
12. 12.THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA
13. 13.CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS NURSERY RHYMES — IN THE STALLS — IN THE STALLS — MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES — A Studied Insult. — " The Sleeping Beauty. " — Collaborateurs.
14. 14.WHY I DON'T WRITE PLAYS — Her First Play. — Mellow drammer — First Night of an Unappreciated Melodrama. — THE COMMISSARIAT — A NOTE AND QUERY — MR. PUNCH'S OPERA BOX — SIC VOS NON VOBIS DRAMATISATIS, WRITERS!
15. 15.MEM. BY A MANAGER
16. 16.REVISED VERSION OF SHAKSPEARE — A solo on the horn — After the Performance. — SCENES FROM MR. PUNCH'S PANTOMIME. Scene I.—The Tragic Mews — SCENES FROM MR. PUNCH'S PANTOMIME. Scene II.—The Comic Mews — Ambiguous. — Our Theatricals. — Mazeppa. "Again he urges on his wild career!!!" — Distinguished Amateurs. The Actor. — Distinguished Amateurs. The Jeune Premier. — Music by handle. — THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM — Turning a Phrase. — Scene — A Booth in the Wild West — "Men Were Deceivers Ever" — The Commentators. — A Disenchantment — "JUST HINT A FAULT" Little Tommy Bodkin takes his cousins to the gallery of the Opera
17. 17.THE MOAN OF A THEATRE-MANAGER — Ibsen in Brixton. — A five bar rest — LESSONS LEARNED AT A PANTOMIME — THE NEW PLAY — A quick movement with an obligato accompaniment. — TERRIFIC SITUATION! — APPRECIATIVE! — SCENE FROM SHAKSPEARIAN PANTOMIME — A Disenchantment. — The Problem Play. — CHURCH THEATRES FOR COUNTRY VILLAGES—THE BLAMELESS BALLET — Confrères. — A PROP OF THE DRAMA — SHOWING THAT SOMETIMES IT IS GOOD FOR A COBBLER NOT TO STICK TO HIS LAST — An Unkind Cut. — A CROWDED HOUSE — THE PROVINCIAL DRAMA — A CONDUCTOR OF HEAT — "STARTLING EFFECTS!" — EX NIHILO NIHIL FIT — HOW HE OUGHT NOT TO LOOK — PREHISTORIC SHAKSPEARE.—"MACBETH" — MUSIC-HALL INANITIES.—I.
18. 18.MUSIC-HALL INANITIES.—II. The Illustrative Method.
19. 19.ATTENTION AT THE PLAY. — Melodrama in the Suburbs. — The Ruling Passion.
20. 20.HIS FIRST AND LAST PLAY — Paradoxical. — FORM — PROPERTY HAS ITS RIGHTS — The Point of View. — THE FORTHCOMING PANTOMIME — MR. PUNCH'S PATENT MATINEE HAT. — Heard at a Provincial Circus. — The Amateurs. — CAUSE AND EFFECT — "EXCLUSIVE" — The Drama. — The Maiden's Point of View. — A COMEDIE FRANÇAISE — " Those Who Live in Glass Houses ," Etc. — A very cold audience. — A CASE OF "NO COMPRENNY"
21. 21.BETWEEN THE ACTS; OR, THE DRAMA IN LIQUOR — An Irresistible Appeal. — What our Dramatist has to put up with. — OVERHEARD OUTSIDE A THEATRE — STUDY — COLOURED CLERGY — SUPEREROGATION — After the Theatricals. — A DOMESTIC DRAMA — PROGRESS
22. 22."HAMLET" A LA SAUCE DUMB-CRAMBO — "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt!"—Act I., Sc. 2. — "I could a tail unfold!"— Ibid. — "What a falling off was there!"— Ibid. — "Methinks I scent the morning hair!"— Ibid. — "Brief let me be!"— Ibid. — "Lend thy serious ear-ring to what I shall unfold!"—Act I., Sc. 5. — "Toby, or not Toby? that is the question."—Act II., Sc. 2. — "The King, sir."—"Ay, sir, what of him?"—"Is in his retirement marvellous distempered."—"With drink, sir!"—"No, my lord, rather with collar!"—Act III., Sc. 2. — "Oh, my offence is rank!"—Act III., Sc. 3. — "Put your bonnet to his right use—'tis for the head."—Act V., Sc. 2. — " Coming Events cast their Shadows before them. " — A SENSITIVE EAR.
23. 23.DUMB-CRAMBO'S GUIDE TO THE LONDON THEATRES — Drew wry lane — Cove in garden — Cry-teary 'un — Prints of whales — "A—mark it!" — Gay at tea — Princesses and royal tea — Globe — "Scent, James?" — Strand and "save, hoi!" — Only in play! — The actor who has his head turned with applause — CURTAIN-RAISERS — MUSIC HALL TYPES — MUSIC HALL TYPES — MUSIC HALL TYPES — On Tour. — Art and Nature. — CONVINCING

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