Stephen Fry
Autor(a) de Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
About the Author
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 mais available from The Overlook Press. mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(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.
Image credit: 1996, Oxford
Séries
Obras por Stephen Fry
A bit of Fry and Laurie : raw, trembling, naked sketches from their first BBC TV series (1990) 116 exemplares
A Bit of Fry & Laurie: The Complete Series 28 exemplares
A Bit of Fry & Laurie: The Complete Third Season 14 exemplares
A Bit of Fry & Laurie: The Complete Fourth Season 11 exemplares
The Tales of Max Carrados 10 exemplares
Fry's Planet Word [Regions 2 & 4] by Stephen Fry 6 exemplares
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 exemplares
Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection 3 exemplares
QI: The H Series - 3-DVD Set ( QI: The H Series (Series 9) ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ] (2010) 2 exemplares
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive 2 exemplares
Stalag Luft 2 exemplares
DVD - Transporters - Discover the World of Emotions 2 exemplares
Stephen Fry's Inside Your Mind 1 exemplar
Kingdom. Series three 1 exemplar
Pocoyo: Pocoyo Circus 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry And The Gutenberg Press 1 exemplar
The Dongle of Donald Trefusis 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry: Learn Your Tables 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry's Greek Myths (3 Book Series) 1 exemplar
2018 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry: Out There [DVD] (120 min) 1 exemplar
QI : A-F and part of G 1 exemplar
Kingdom - Series 1-3 [DVD] 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House 1 exemplar
Stephen Fry's Key to the City | Documentary | NON-USA Format | PAL | Region 4 Import - Australia 1 exemplar
Galaxy 1 exemplar
Fry's English Delight: Series Nine 1 exemplar
Fry's English Delight: Series Ten 1 exemplar
7 Deadly Sins 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (2013) — Narrador, algumas edições — 809 exemplares
The Book of General Ignorance : The Noticeably Stouter Edition (2009) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 345 exemplares
O Regresso de Paddington: Novas aventuras do urso que nasceu no Peru (2008) — Narrador, algumas edições — 326 exemplares
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (2019) — Prefácio — 235 exemplares
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages (2009) — Introdução; Narrador, algumas edições; Compiler; Editor — 63 exemplares
Paddington Turns Detective and Other Funny Stories (2018) — Narrador, algumas edições — 41 exemplares
Last Chance to See [2009 TV series] 14 exemplares
Absolute Power: The Complete First Season — Actor — 13 exemplares
Kingdom: Series 3 8 exemplares
The Best of Paddington Bear (Unabridged Audiobook, 3-in-1) (1985) — Reader, algumas edições — 7 exemplares
Die glücklichen Stunden. 20 Autoren und die Magie des Erzählens (2005) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Discovery of Heaven [2001 film] 5 exemplares
A Liar's Autobiography [2012 film] 4 exemplares
Short Stories: the Thinking Man's Collection (Csa Word Short Stories) (2010) — Narrador, algumas edições — 2 exemplares
The Dropout [2022 TV miniseries] 2 exemplares
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 01 : First Night of the Proms : Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ [video recording] (2020) — Interviewed Guest — 1 exemplar
BBC Proms 2016 : Prom 43 : Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra [video recording] (2016) — Special guest — 1 exemplar
Absolute Power (Series 1, Episode 01-03) 1 exemplar
Stalag Luft [1993 TV movie] 1 exemplar
Absolute Power: Series 2 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Fry, Stephen
- Nome legal
- Fry, Stephen John
- Outros nomes
- Fry, Mrs Stephen (pseudonym)
Fry, Edna (pseudonym) - Data de nascimento
- 1957-08-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Booton, Norfolk, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educação
- University of Cambridge (MA | 1981 | Queens' College)
- Ocupações
- actor
writer
comedian
television presenter
film director
administrator (mostrar todos 7)
atheist - Relações
- Spencer, Elliott (husband)
- Organizações
- The Noël Coward Society (Vice President)
Cambridge University Quiz Society
British Humanist Association (Distinguished Supporter)
University of Dundee (Rector, 1992-1998) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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. - Nota de desambiguação
- 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.
Membros
Discussions
August 2013: "Der Sterne Tennisbälle" von Stephen Fry em Online-Lesekreis (Agosto 2013)
Críticas
Every discussion about time travel goes hand in hand with killing Hitler. Stephen Fry did a great job with "making that wish come true".
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.… (mais)
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.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 91
- Also by
- 133
- Membros
- 26,239
- Popularidade
- #799
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Críticas
- 551
- ISBN
- 404
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 153
- Pedras de toque
- 594
In a just world I would live around the corner from him and meet up regularly for witty banter filled conversations, laden with odd bits of knowledge.
However, the restraining order forbids that so I am left with his writing.
This book is filled with amazing tarantellas of language, wrapped up in an ever so vaguely naughty and unapologetically not politically correct plot. I loved it and found myself having to drop the book to allow for great washes of laughter as it ran along. Main character Ted Wallace, blocked poet, newly fired from his job reviewing plays, is sent on a mysterious quest by his goddaughter. He’s to go to a country home and look about and let her know what he thinks.
About what? he wonders, but, fortified with significant amounts of single malt, he gradually teases out the truth of what is going on.
Along the way he runs into ex-partners, old school chums, a fellow ne’er do well, his mysterious godson, and a horse named Lilac.
It’s all good fun, and unlike many stories, there’s a happy ending (not THAT sort of happy ending…well, actually there ARE those…)
An enjoyable read, particularly for the verbal gymnastics. I’ll be saving this for a re-read whenever I feel blue.
… (mais)