Stephen Fry
Autor de Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Sobre El Autor
Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, and director. He is also the bestselling author of four novels - The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar-as well as two previous memoirs- Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles, the latter of which is mostrar más available from The Overlook Press. mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Note: Both Mrs Stephen Fry and Edna Fry are pseudonyms of Stephen Fry used on: Mrs. Fry's Diary and How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage.
Créditos de la imagen: 1996, Oxford
Series
Obras de Stephen Fry
A bit of Fry and Laurie : raw, trembling, naked sketches from their first BBC TV series (1990) 116 copias
The Tales of Max Carrados 10 copias
Fry's English Delight - Series 08 - Ep 1 - Words Fail Me / Ep 2 - Talking About the Weather / Ep 3 - Do You Promise Not… (2015) 4 copias
Mites, NE 2022 (ARA TEMES CLAU) 3 copias
Stalag Luft 2 copias
QI: The H Series - 3-DVD Set ( QI: The H Series (Series 9) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] (2010) 2 copias
Stephen Fry's Inside Your Mind 2 copias
Hidden Kingdoms 1 copia
The Night Before Christmas — Narrador — 1 copia
Mitos: Yunan Mitleri 1 1 copia
The Inventor 1 copia
Kingdom Complete Series 1 copia
The Canterville Ghost 1 copia
Kingdom. Series three 1 copia
Pocoyo: Pocoyo Circus 1 copia
Kingdom - Series 1-3 [DVD] 1 copia
The Dongle of Donald Trefusis 1 copia
Stephen Fry: Learn Your Tables 1 copia
Galaxy 1 copia
QI : A-F and part of G 1 copia
2018 1 copia
Stephen Fry's Key to the City | Documentary | NON-USA Format | PAL | Region 4 Import - Australia 1 copia
7 Deadly Sins 1 copia
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The Book of General Ignorance : The Noticeably Stouter Edition (2009) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 355 copias
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (2019) — Prólogo — 259 copias
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contribuidor — 187 copias
Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages (2009) — Introducción; Narrador, algunas ediciones; Compiler; Editor — 65 copias
Last Chance to See [2009 TV series] 14 copias
Absolute Power: The Complete First Season — Actor — 13 copias
Kingdom: Series 3 8 copias
The Best of Paddington Bear (Unabridged Audiobook, 3-in-1) (1985) — Reader, algunas ediciones — 7 copias
The Discovery of Heaven [2001 film] 5 copias
The Dropout [2022 TV miniseries] 2 copias
Stalag Luft [1993 TV movie] 1 copia
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 01 : First Night of the Proms : Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ [video recording] (2020) — Interviewed Guest — 1 copia
Absolute Power: Series 2 1 copia
BBC Proms 2016 : Prom 43 : Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra [video recording] (2016) — Special guest — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Fry, Stephen
- Nombre legal
- Fry, Stephen John
- Otros nombres
- Fry, Mrs Stephen (pseudonym)
Fry, Edna (pseudonym) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1957-08-24
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Booton, Norfolk, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educación
- University of Cambridge (MA | 1981 | Queens' College)
- Ocupaciones
- actor
writer
comedian
television presenter
film director
administrator (mostrar todos 7)
atheist - Relaciones
- Spencer, Elliott (husband)
- Organizaciones
- Noël Coward Society (vice president)
Cambridge University Quiz Society
British Humanist Association (distinguished supporter)
Dundee University (rector|1992-1998)
Garrick Club (member) - Premios y honores
- Best Actor (Seattle International Film Festival | 1998)
Pipe Smoker of the Year (2003)
Best Game Show Host (Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival | 2006)
Lifetime Achievement Award (British Comedy Awards | 2007)
Special Recognition Award (National Television Awards | 2010)
British LGBT award (Hero of the people | 2019) (mostrar todos 8)
AoC Gold Award (2004)
Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (2021) - Agente
- Anthony Goff (David Higham Associates)
- Biografía breve
- Best known for his comedic work in the 1980s and 1990s with fellow UK actor Hugh Laurie as half of the comedy team Fry & Laurie, and as Jeeves in the UK television series adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster books. Has also portrayed Oscar Wilde in the UK film Wilde. Has also worked with Ade Edmonson and Rick Mayall, often guest-starring in their own television series', The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich & Catflap, with comedic partner Laurie.
Has battled bipolar disorder. Is a self-described technology fiend.
Currently spends a lot of time on his iPhone updating his Twitter microblog. - Aviso de desambiguación
- Note: Both Mrs Stephen Fry and Edna Fry are pseudonyms of Stephen Fry used on: Mrs. Fry's Diary and How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage.
Miembros
Debates
August 2013: "Der Sterne Tennisbälle" von Stephen Fry en Online-Lesekreis (agosto 2013)
Reseñas
A phenomenal and unexpurgated modern retelling of the Greek myths, giving them a vitality missing from the standard texts. Highly recommended.
I read to almost the halfway point but didn't go on -- kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. Neither the plot nor the characters interested me, there was a lot of vulgar language for no very good reason that I could tell. It was simply a distasteful read, as far as I was concerned.
On rereading this book, I'm upgrading it to 5 stars. (Although I should note I'm a pathetic Stephen Fry acolyte, so you should hold my judgment to be as something written on water.)
Fry carefully takes the reader through essentially all the key concepts to understand poetry. Metre, looking at poetic feet, enjambment, caesura, sprung rhythm and syllabic poetry among others; Rhyme, exploring types of rhyme including feminine, triple, and rich; Form, in which he interrogates everything from the Pindaric ode to the Villanelle, from the Limerick to the Tanka; and Diction, a brief epilogue on the art of poetry in the 21st century. It is all written in his distinctive style, passionately erudite one second, cheeky the next.
Along the way, Fry includes 20 exercises designed to help the novice poet experiment with forms and styles, while also including plenty of excerpts from poetry dating back to the ancients and forward to the present - as well as his own (deliberately low-key) efforts. For the most part, Fry avoids breathtakingly contemporary styles and blank verse. He notes that these styles are just as important and powerful, but that any artist must begin with an understanding of the basics and the existing work that has been built up over millennia before "breaking free of the pan and doing their own thing", as Elaine Benes would put it.
For some budding poets, this will be rich material. For others, you may not connect with Fry's tone or his focus on the "nuts and bolts" of writing. (I, like Fry, would caution you to reconsider your beliefs!)
Speaking for myself, I don't have any intention of writing poetry, and so I did not do the exercises. For me, the joy of this book was simply in revisiting the breadth of poetic styles in the hands of a master storyteller and armchair academic. With helpful charts, tables, and practical examples along the way, The Ode Less Travelled shines for those of us who still keep bookshelves of reference books. The final 22 pages are a glossary of poetic terms from abecedarian to zeugma (well, there's a couple of joke entries after the latter, but that's for you to enjoy), which will prove equally useful.… (más)
Fry carefully takes the reader through essentially all the key concepts to understand poetry. Metre, looking at poetic feet, enjambment, caesura, sprung rhythm and syllabic poetry among others; Rhyme, exploring types of rhyme including feminine, triple, and rich; Form, in which he interrogates everything from the Pindaric ode to the Villanelle, from the Limerick to the Tanka; and Diction, a brief epilogue on the art of poetry in the 21st century. It is all written in his distinctive style, passionately erudite one second, cheeky the next.
Along the way, Fry includes 20 exercises designed to help the novice poet experiment with forms and styles, while also including plenty of excerpts from poetry dating back to the ancients and forward to the present - as well as his own (deliberately low-key) efforts. For the most part, Fry avoids breathtakingly contemporary styles and blank verse. He notes that these styles are just as important and powerful, but that any artist must begin with an understanding of the basics and the existing work that has been built up over millennia before "breaking free of the pan and doing their own thing", as Elaine Benes would put it.
For some budding poets, this will be rich material. For others, you may not connect with Fry's tone or his focus on the "nuts and bolts" of writing. (I, like Fry, would caution you to reconsider your beliefs!)
Speaking for myself, I don't have any intention of writing poetry, and so I did not do the exercises. For me, the joy of this book was simply in revisiting the breadth of poetic styles in the hands of a master storyteller and armchair academic. With helpful charts, tables, and practical examples along the way, The Ode Less Travelled shines for those of us who still keep bookshelves of reference books. The final 22 pages are a glossary of poetic terms from abecedarian to zeugma (well, there's a couple of joke entries after the latter, but that's for you to enjoy), which will prove equally useful.… (más)
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- Valoración
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- ISBNs
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And devoured said book I did. This book takes us on a guided tour of the Greek mythology of Titans and Gods. From the beginning with Chaos to the defeat of Kronos at the hands of his son, Zeus. To the lesser Gods and their duties to the reasons behind the changing seasons. All this is written and told with humor and story-weaving to draw the reader into the realm of the Gods and their sorted affairs, messy relationships, and overall bad behavior.
Stephen Frey uses humor and storytelling is brilliant and fun. The reader is kept engaged with the world of Greek and Roman mythology throughout the book until the ending page. I found myself giggling with each page turned.
I loved that the first book focuses mainly on the Gods because you don't find many Most stories featuring the Gods also have the heroes thus offering lesser tales and more shortened summaries of their messy and bad behaviors before diving in and offering a more thorough storytelling of the other heroes and villains of the Greek and Roman world.… (más)