Part sitcom, part sketch show, part "Kitchen Sink," part "Northern Gothic," The League of Gentlemen is one of British television's most innovative and enduring comedy series. Set in the northern town of Royston Vasey, the series introduced viewers to homicidal Local Shop keepers Tubbs and Edward, vindictive training officer Pauline, demonic butcher Hilary Briss, and the nightmarish circus owner Papa Lazarou. Such was the series' effect that the word "local" would never seem the same again. The majority of these grotesque ...
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Part sitcom, part sketch show, part "Kitchen Sink," part "Northern Gothic," The League of Gentlemen is one of British television's most innovative and enduring comedy series. Set in the northern town of Royston Vasey, the series introduced viewers to homicidal Local Shop keepers Tubbs and Edward, vindictive training officer Pauline, demonic butcher Hilary Briss, and the nightmarish circus owner Papa Lazarou. Such was the series' effect that the word "local" would never seem the same again. The majority of these grotesque characters were played by Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, who created and wrote the series with Jeremy Dyson. In addition to creating a unique world, where the mundane collided with the macabre, the League showcased a versatility in its performers rarely seen in TV comedy. Leon Hunt's entertaining and illuminating study offers the most sustained analysis of the series. Drawing on original interviews with Dyson and Gatiss, he traces the League' s evolution, from fringe theater to radio to television, from sketch-based material to the longer narratives of the Christmas Special and the contentious third series. Hunt contextualises the series as a "cult classic," discussing its place within traditions of British comedy, its references to horror and fantasy and its creation of a grotesque and self-contained world.
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New. Leon Hunt's study examines The League of Gentlemen's status as a 'cult' comedy, and places it in the context of traditions of British comedy and Northern humour, horror and the Gothic. The book includes insights from interviews with two of the 'Gents'. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 136 x 190 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280. 2008. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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