Humorous Readings and Recitations

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Humorous Fiction, Short Stories

Authors: Leopold Wagner In Year : 1889

Book Language: English

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Preface
Accompanied on the Flute
The Troubles of a Triplet
Slightly Deaf
The Lady Freemason
What Happened Last Night!
The Fatal Legs
The Caliph's Jester
A Journey in Search of Nothing
Gemini and Virgo
King Bibbs
Molly Muldoon
The Harmonious Lobsters
The Provincial Landlady
My Matrimonial Predicament
Etiquette
Lost Shepherd
Mathematic Madness
Waiting at Tottlepot
Married to a Giantess
The Vision of the Alderman
The Demon Snuffers
The Walrus and the Carpenter
My Brother Henry
A Night with a Stork
The Faithful Lovers
The Wail of a Banner-Bearer
The Dream of the Bilious Beadle
My Friend Treacle
The Voice of the Sluggard
Artemus Ward's Visit to the Tower of London
Mr. Caudle has lent an Acquaintance the Family Umbrella
Domestic Asides
The Charity Dinner
Acting with a Vengeance
My Fortnight at Wretchedville
The Sorrows of Werther
Moral Music
Billy Dumps, the Tailor
On Punning
Seaside Lodgings

Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to issues and authors of the time. Public performance was, in a sense, the internet of its day, as people sought to learn of the world around them, as well as entertain themselves. This anthology of short humorous pieces was intended as a ready reference of material of all sorts to those who participated in public performance, whether professionally, or as part of a school or community program. The pieces themselves were intended to be read aloud, shared with, and appreciated by, an audience. This intent is not dissimilar to the mission of Librivox in the twenty-first century. They were written by popular authors of the period, some of whose names are still well known in the twenty first-century, such as J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan), Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), W.S. Gilbert (HMS Pinafore) and W.M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair), as well as others whose popularity has waned. (DrPGould)