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Pastiche and Prejudice

by Arthur Bingham WALKLEY (1855 - 1926)

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of pastiches was completed after he already had more than two decades of work as a theatre critic under his belt, and it draws some brilliant characterisations. Among the literary and historical figures found in the different pastiches are such illustrious figures as Aristotle and Shakespeare, but also more modern phenomena as movies are discussed, along with politicians and other famous persons of the time. - Summary by Carolin

Listen next episodes of Pastiche and Prejudice:
A Point of Croce's , A Theatrical Forecast , A Theory of Brunetière , Again at the Martello Tower , Disraeli and the Play , First Nights , Futurist Dancing , Grand Guignolism , H.B. Irving , Henry James and the Theatre , Hroswitha , Jane Austen , Jules Lemaître , Nineteenth-Century Woman , Pagello , Perverted Reputations , Pickles and Picards , Plays of Talk , Plays within Plays , Practical Literature , Stendhal , Talk at the Martello Tower , 'The Beggar's Opera' , The Business Man , The Movies , The Puppets , The Secret of Greek Art , The Silent Stage , Theatrical Amorism , Time and the Film , T.W. Robertson , Versatility , Vicissitudes of Classics , William Hazlitt , Women's Journals