Gilbert And Sullivan A Biography

Author : Michael Ainger
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195147693
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Michael Ainger and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with biographical as well as professional detail, this text suggests that Gilbert and Sullivan's creative partnership was fuelled by their ongoing personality clash, as each partner challenged the other to produce his best work.

Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher : London : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Hesketh Pearson and published by London : Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1935 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755154436
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography written by Hesketh Pearson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who had individual, quite different, personalities – and their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works.

Author : Andrew Crowther
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752463853
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan written by Andrew Crowther and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Author : Gayden Wren
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195301724
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Most Ingenious Paradox written by Gayden Wren and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.

Author : Hesketh Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert & Sullivan written by Hesketh Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane W. Stedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198161745
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert written by Jane W. Stedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231148054
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert and Sullivan written by Carolyn Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.

Author : Keith Dockray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781557761
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topsy Turvy World of Gilbert and Sullivan written by Keith Dockray and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No musical partnership has enjoyed greater success during its time span than that of Gilbert and Sullivan in the later 19th century. No fewer than a dozen Savoy operas are still regularly performed. The operas present audiences with splendidly rich and satirical evocations of Victorian England and its society: the prime subject matter of this book!

Author : W. S. Gilbert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368304569
Total Pages : 1137 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan written by W. S. Gilbert and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.