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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "WS Gilbert".
- catalog contributor b9063721.
- catalog contributor b9063722.
- catalog coverage "England Oxford.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Biography.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "A miscellany of beginnings -- The 1860's: first pages -- The 1860's: first stages -- Love, marriage, farce and burlesque -- Babs, Reeds, and Druidesses -- Burlesque into fairy play -- A wicked world -- a happy land -- Problem plays and sweethearts -- Operatical, comical, tragical -- Storms and clear sailing -- Not poetic but aesthetic -- At the Savoy -- A short chapter in method -- The Mikado and after -- Doing and undoing -- Stringing the lyre with a tangled skein -- The road to utopia -- Other voices -- other tunes -- Growing on the sunny side -- Quick curtain.".
- catalog description "Has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 374 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198161743".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Oxford.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "822/.8 B 20".
- catalog subject "Dramatists, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.".
- catalog subject "Librettists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR4714 .S74 1995".
- catalog subject "Theater Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A miscellany of beginnings -- The 1860's: first pages -- The 1860's: first stages -- Love, marriage, farce and burlesque -- Babs, Reeds, and Druidesses -- Burlesque into fairy play -- A wicked world -- a happy land -- Problem plays and sweethearts -- Operatical, comical, tragical -- Storms and clear sailing -- Not poetic but aesthetic -- At the Savoy -- A short chapter in method -- The Mikado and after -- Doing and undoing -- Stringing the lyre with a tangled skein -- The road to utopia -- Other voices -- other tunes -- Growing on the sunny side -- Quick curtain.".
- catalog title "W.S. Gilbert : a classic Victorian and his theatre / Jane W. Stedman.".
- catalog title "WS Gilbert".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".