Lehrende/r: Dr. Michael Raab
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 410
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: Sem. II BS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Thema und Dozent dieser Veranstaltung haben sich geändert. Angemeldete Teilnehmer beachten bitte die Jogustine-Systemnachricht.
Inhalt: The British Music Hall was an institution which under one roof harboured many of the genres we now refer to as the entertainment industry. It had a mass appeal particularly for proletarian visitors who wouldn’t frequent theatres. Especially well-loved were its character comedians. Still today their successors have a huge following, be it on stage or on television and film. Dramatists often chose this vibrant scene to portray fictional or real performers and to ask what the function and the appeal of their art was. The seminar will attempt a survey of British comedy from the late 19th century until today and analyse six plays dealing with it. John Osborne and Douglas Maxwell set their action at the tail-end of the Music Hall in the 1950s in England and at the end of the 1920s in Scotland in The Entertainer and Variety respectively. Trevor Griffiths’ characters in Comedians attend an evening class for prospective entertainers in Manchester. Terry Johnson, the most important specialist for the genre, writes about the members of a comedy fan club in Dead Funny and about the cast of the Carry On-films in Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick. In Ying Tong the appropriately named Roy Smiles brings to the stage the members of the legendary Goon Show Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
Empfohlene Literatur: Required reading are the following texts: John Osborne: The Entertainer (1956) Trevor Griffiths: Comedians (1975) Terry Johnson: Dead Funny (1994) Terry Johnson: Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998) Douglas Maxwell: Variety (2002) Roy Smiles: Ying Tong (2004)
