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Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character - Hardcover

Crowther, Andrew

 
9780752455891: Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0752455893 ISBN 13: 9780752455891
Publisher: The History Press, 2011

Synopsis

The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert, witty, caustic and disrespectful, was one of the celebrities of the late Victorian age. In his time he had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories and dramatist; a political satire he wrote was banned by the Lord Chamberlain at the personal insistence of the Prince of Wales. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time. 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. This is 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 his glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.

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About the Author

ANDREW CROWTHER is an expert on W.S. Gilbert, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert. He lives in Bradford and is, himself, a playwright.

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Publisher
The History Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0752455893
ISBN 13 
9780752455891
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272