Research Catalog

Title

The topsy turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan / Keith Dockray and Alan Sutton.

Author

Dockray, Keith

Publication

[England] : Fonthill, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sutton, Alan, 1949-

Description

126 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

No musical partnership has enjoyed greater success during its time span, or bequeathed a more powerful and enduring legacy, than that of Gilbert and Sullivan in the later nineteenth century. Even before their first successful collaboration in 1875, both William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) had already forged considerable reputations for themselves. Thereafter, between 1877 and 1896, Gilbert wrote the librettos, and Sullivan the music, for no fewer than a dozen Savoy operas, among them the still regularly performed H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Iolanthe (1882), The Mikado (1885), The Yeomen of the Guard (1888) and The Gondoliers (1889). Not only are the plots ingenious, the lyrics witty and the music compelling, the operas also present modern audiences with splendidly rich and satirical evocations of Victorian England and its society: the prime subject matter of this book!

Subject

• Gilbert, W. S. 1836-1911
• Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
• 1800-1899
• Opera > England > 19th century
• Opera
• England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1: Victorian England in the Savoy operas. Law and the legal scene ; Army, navy and the military scene ; Politics and the political scene ; Society and the social scene -- Part 2: Subject panels in haphazard sequence. The Bab ballads ; William Schwenck Gilbert: the early years ; Arthur Seymour Sullivan: the early years ; Frederic Emes Clay ; Clerkenwell Sessions House ; Nelly Bromley ; Cox and box ; Frederic Sullivan ; The Savoy Theatre and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ; George Grossmith: part 1 ; W. H. Smith: first lord of the admiralty ; George Grossmith: part 2 ; Prince George, duke of Cambridge ; Edward Cardwell ; William Gladstone ; Benjamin Disraeli ; The missing budget box! ; George Grossmith as John Wellington Wells ; Lord Chelsmford and the Anglo-Zulu War ; Sir Garnet Wolseleey: 'the very model of a modern major-general' ; Patience and the Aesthetic movement ; Oscar Wilde ; Richard D'Oyly Carte ; George Grossmith as Reginald Bunthorne ; Lord Randolph Churchill ; The Japanese exhibition ; The lord chamberlain ; William Schwenck Gilbert: the later years ; Arthur Seymour Sullivan: the later years ; The carpet affair ; Darwinism.

Call Number

JME 21-432

ISBN

• 1781557764
• 9781781557761

OCLC

1132284543

Author

Dockray, Keith, author.

Title

The topsy turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan / Keith Dockray and Alan Sutton.

Publisher

[England] : Fonthill, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Sutton, Alan, 1949- author.

Research Call Number

JME 21-432