The Gilbert & Sullivan Journal
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 364
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A Most Ingenious Paradox
Author: Gayden Wren
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195145144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost books written about Gilbert & Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than the works. With this detailed examination of all fourteen operas, Gayden Wren fills this void. His bold thesis finds the key to the operas' longevity, not in the clever lyrics, witty dialogue, or catchy music, but in their timeless themes, which speak to audiences as powerfully now as they did the first time the operas were performed. This volume is essential reading for any devotee of these enchanting works, or indeed for anyone who loves musical theater.
The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: David Eden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0521888492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international team of contributors, including film director Mike Leigh, presents fresh insights into the work of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: Carolyn Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0231148054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
The Gilbert & Sullivan Sorting System
Author: Geoffrey Dixon
Publisher: Rhosearn Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0952553236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: Andrew Crowther
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0752463853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, and with Arthur Sullivan he wrote comic operas that defined the age. He became richer and more famous than he could have imagined, but at the price of his artistic freedom. In his time Gilbert had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories, dramatist. Andrew Crowther examines W.S. Gilbert from all these angles, using a wealth of sources to tell the story of an angry and quarrelsome man, discontented with himself and the age he lived in, raging at life's absurdities and laughing at them. In this book Gilbert's glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.
Plays by W. S. Gilbert
Author: George Rowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-03-04
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780521235891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition includes four plays and one libretto, covering more than twenty years of the dramatist's career: The Palace of Truth (1870), Sweethearts (1874), Princess Toto (1876), Engaged (1877) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891). The collection demonstrates that Gilbert was an original dramatist in his own right. The sophisticated irony of his plays challenged the conventions of the Victorian burlesque and sentimental comedy by demanding, and receiving, an intelligent response from the audience. George Rowell's useful and thorough introduction, which presents the theatrical background to Gilbert's development, also shows the dramatist's influence on Pinero, Wilde and Shaw. Gilbert's style combines a technique rarely realistic and stretching to fantasy with a tone apparently cynical and in fact deeply pessimistic. This odd pairing of fantasy and fatalism was recognized by his own and later generations as 'Gilbertian' and the term has been widely applied even outside the theatre.
ABA Journal
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Published: 1960-04
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Author: Kurt Gänzl
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1438485476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1274
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