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The complete plays of Gilbert and Sullivan / illustrated by W.S. Gilbert.
LIBRA ML49.S9 A1 1997 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
- Series:
- Norton library
- Standardized Title:
- Librettos. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Librettos.
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Librettos.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 615 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.
- Summary:
- William Gilbert's verses for Arthur Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. From "Trial by Jury" to "The Pirates of Penzance", here are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Includes biographical sketches of Gilbert and Sullivan and the amusing pictures drawn by Gilbert to illustrate the music.
- Contents:
- Thespis
- Trial by jury
- The sorcerer
- H.M.S. Pinafore
- The pirates of Penzance
- Patience
- Iolanthe
- Princess Ida
- The Mikado
- Ruddigore
- The yeomen of the guard
- The gondoliers
- Utopia, limited
- The grand duke.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1941 ed. published by Garden City Pub. Co., Garden City, N.Y.
- ISBN:
- 0393316882
- 9780393316889
- OCLC:
- 37704085
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