Ws Gilbert

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 : George Rowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521235891
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays by W. S. Gilbert written by George Rowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-03-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429859619
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The Progress of Fun considers principally the last of these areas, focussing on the case of W.S. Gilbert and challenging the frequently held view that he is pre-eminently a typical Victorian. This it does by tracing his roots back to Ancient Greek comedy and to the various comedic developments that have dominated Western Europe thereafter. Also included is a careful examination of the constraints and limitations that in various forms have long affected comedy-writing, and an evaluation of Gilbert’s particular skills and legacy within the on-going process. The whole is a suitable prelude to a second volume (Pipes and Tabors) which will consider Genre in W.S. Gilbert, again relating it to comedic precedents and the universally timeless within the particular.

Author : Richard Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000699897
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert written by Richard Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes to Joe Orton and beyond. Pipes and Tabors continues the story, covering the comedic experience differently by reference to genres. Here – treated in relation to a line of significant others – we discover how Gilbert responded to areas such as the Pastoral, the Irish drama, nautical scenarios, melodrama, sensation-theatre, the nonsensemode, pantomime spectaculars, fairy plays, and classical farce. Also included is a wider look at his relation to various European musical forms and (for instance) to the English line of wit and the Elizabethan pamphleteers. To consider a writer not so much by a study of individual works as by threads of linking generic modes tells us a great deal about cultural interconnections and the richly textured nature of theatrical experience. Pipes and Tabors offers a tapestry of overlapping genres and treatments, showing not just the design of the finished products but the shreds and patches which form the underside of the weave. According to Dorothy L. Sayers, life itself offers us the apparent loose ends of a design which will only be revealed from the front after death. In terms of Gilbertian comedy, we are privileged to be able to track both the effort of the weave and the skill of the finished product. On the way we will also discover some new links and sub-text implications about other 19th century denigrated groups which were buried from sight for too long.

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Plays by W.S. Gilbert written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patience, Or, Bunthorne's Bride written by Arthur Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W.S. Gilbert
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724425
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaged written by W.S. Gilbert and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, is a farcical comedy that has long lived in the literary shadows – although wildly neglected today, the play influenced literary names as great as George Bernard Shaw, and directly inspired Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Centring on a rich young man’s search for a wife and his uncle and best friend’s attempts to hinder him, the play toys with conventional notions of love and sincerity. In this edition, which also contains notes and an essay by the undisputed authority on W.S. Gilbert, Andrew Crowther, Engaged deserves to step out into the spotlight once more. 'The laughter was almost incessant.' The New York Times 'The satirical comedy of Mr Gilbert has all the sting, smack and strength of neat brandy… a sudden gulp of it is apt to take one’s breath away.' The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Author : Sidney Dark
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.S. Gilbert written by Sidney Dark and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1924 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Author : W.S. Gilbert
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pinafore Picture Book; The Story of HMS Pinafore written by W.S. Gilbert and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Pinafore Picture Book: the Story of H.M.S. Pinafore' by W. S. Gilbert is a delightful comic opera filled with romance and mistaken identities. On board the British warship H.M.S. Pinafore, love and laughter intertwine. Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, falls for Josephine, the Captain's daughter, despite the social divide. As secrets are unveiled and disguises are worn, the crew finds themselves in a whirlwind of unexpected alliances and forbidden desires.