The English comic opera, which dominated the London theaters during the last forty years of the eighteenth century, developed from the ballad opera, the opera comique, the opera seria, and the dramma giocoso. Isaac Bickerstaff started the vogue in 1762 with Love in a Village, and other librettists and composers refined his method of combining both new and old songs with dialogue, creating over one hundred such works by the end of the century.;My dissertation also discusses the evolution of the comic opera into the Gothic musical and melodrama during the 1790's and provides a chronological list of comic operas (including performance data), alphabetical lists of librettists and composers, and a list of the most frequently performed comic operas at each of the three patent theaters.;I provide an overview of the genre, but I also examine three comic operas in detail, considering not only the text, but also the music, stage history, and publishing history of these works: The Duenna (1775), Richard Brinsley Sheridan's and Thomas Linley the Younger's opera of wit and ingenuity; Resina (1782), by Frances Brooke with music by William Shield, a comic opera that critically examines sentimental drama; and George Colman the Younger's and Samuel Arnold's Inkle and Yarico (1787), a comic opera that tackles problematic social issues.
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机译：英文漫画歌剧是在十八世纪最后四十年统治伦敦剧院的，它是从民谣歌剧，歌剧漫画，歌剧系列和德拉玛·乔科索发展而来的。艾萨克·比克斯塔夫（Isaac Bickerstaff）于1762年以《村庄里的爱情》（Love in a Village）创下了时尚，其他自由主义者和作曲家改进了他将新旧歌曲与对话结合起来的方法，到本世纪末创作了一百多首此类作品。我的论文还讨论了在1790年代将喜剧转变为哥特式音乐剧和情节剧，并按时间顺序列出了喜剧（包括表演数据），按字母顺序排列的泄密作家和作曲家，以及列出了在这三者中最常出现的喜剧我提供了这种类型的概述，但我还仔细研究了三部喜剧，不仅考虑文字，还考虑了这些作品的音乐，舞台历史和出版历史：《杜安娜》（1775年），理查德布林斯利·谢里丹（Brinsley Sheridan）和年轻的托马斯·林利（Thomas Linley）的才子大才。弗朗西斯·布鲁克（Frances Brooke）创作的《 Resina（1782）》和威廉·希尔德（William Shield）的音乐，这是一部喜剧戏曲，主要研究感性的戏剧。还有年轻的乔治·科尔曼（George Colman the Younger）和塞缪尔·阿诺德（Samuel Arnold）的《因克勒和亚里科（Inkle and Yarico）》（1787年），这是一部解决有问题的社会问题的喜剧。
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