I just got finished watching βAnd itβs Surely to their Credit,β and I was wondering if anybody knew the version of βHe is an Englishmanβ they used at the end, or it was something recorded specifically for that episode.
Thanks in advance!
Youtube: "He is a Englishman". Lyrics here
Question inspired by this YouTube comment:
"[Kelsey Grammer's] version is ok, nothing more. He sings it well, but it doesn't work with the context of the song. I encourage you to actually watch some proper performances of G&S, they are exceptional. G&S were satirists. Their plays were satire. The message of "For he is an Englishman" isn't English patriotism. The message is that being an Englishman and being a good man aren't the same thing. The song is a satirical piece poking fun at the contemporary nationalistic sentiments which conflated those two things. Whether Ralph is suitable to marry Josephine has nothing to do with whether he's English or not. Any performance which presents "For he is an Englishman" as an actual nationalistic ode to England is completely misunderstanding what the song is about. It's satire. G&S wrote satire."
Is this true? When I listen, I hear a song bursting with national pride. "For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!". I personally don't read any sarcasm or satire in this line. The lyrics, of course, contain satire, but in my reading the satire boosts the message of English nationalism: "But in spite of all temptations, to belong to other nations, he remains a Englishman" - the joke, to me, being that there are few temptations to belong to any other nation. Am I wrong?
That there would be a nationalist overtones in this play agrees with my (very limited) knowledge that the period of the late 1800's in Europe coincided with generally high nationalistic sentiments (unless I am wrong here).
However, satire is really all about context, and I admit that I really don't know a lot about the historical context in which this play was released, and, well, I haven't even seen the entire play. So, at the risk of asking a very simple question if I were to just watch the whole thing, is the song "He is a Englishman" from Gilbert and Sullivans' Pinafore celebrating or satirizing English nationalism?
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