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

Crowther, Andrew

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

Inhaltsangabe

The life of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan
 
The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, W. S. Gilbert—a witty, caustic, and disrespectful man—was one of the celebrities of the late Victorian age, and in this book his glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life. In his time he was many things: journalist, theater critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, short story writer, and dramatist. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, a political satire he wrote was banned by the Lord Chamberlain at the personal insistence of the Prince of Wales, 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. 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Crowther is the secretary of the W S Gilbert Society and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: the Plays of W S Gilbert.

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Verlag
The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752455893
ISBN 13 
9780752455891
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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