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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dockray, Keith, author.
• Sutton, Alan, 1949- author.

Contributor:

• Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.
• Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
• Opera--England--19th century.
• Opera.
• England.

Physical Description:

126 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[England] : Fonthill, 2020.

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!

Contents:

• Part 1 Victorian England in the Savoy Operas p. 13
• 1 Law and the Legal Scene p. 15
• 2 Army, Navy and the Military Scene p. 24
• 3 Politics and the Political Scene p. 34
• 4 Society and the Social Scene p. 38
• Part 2 Subject Panels in Haphazard Sequence
• 1 The Bab Ballads p. 53
• 2 William Schwenck Gilbert-The Early Years p. 54
• 3 Arthur Seymour Sullivan-The Early Years p. 56
• 4 Frederic Emes Clay p. 58
• 5 Clerkenwell Sessions House p. 59
• 6 Nelly Bromley p. 60
• 7 Cox and Box p. 62
• 8 Frederic Sullivan p. 63
• 9 The Savoy Theatre and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company p. 64
• 10 George Grossmith-Part 1 p. 66
• 11 W. H. Smith-First Lord of the Admiralty p. 68
• 12 George Grossmith-Part 2 p. 70
• 13 Prince George, duke of Cambridge p. 72
• 14 Edward Cardwell p. 73
• 15 William Gladstone p. 74
• 16 Benjamin Disraeli p. 75
• 17 The Missing Budget Box! p. 76
• 18 George Grossmith as John Wellington Wells p. 77
• 19 Lord Chelsmford and the Anglo-Zulu War p. 78
• 20 Sir Garnet Wolseley-'the very model of a modern Major-General' p. 79
• 21 Patience and the Aesthetic Movement p. 82
• 22 Oscar Wilde p. 85
• 23 Richard D'Oyly Carte p. 86
• 24 George Grossmith as Reginald Bunthorne p. 90
• 25 Lord Randolph Churchill p. 91
• 26 The Japanese Exhibition p. 92
• 27 The Lord Chamberlain p. 95
• 28 William Schwenck Gilbert-The Later Years p. 96
• 29 Arthur Seymour Sullivan-The Later Years p. 100
• 30 The Carpet Affair p. 104
• 31 Darwinism p. 106.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

ISBN:

• 9781781557761
• 1781557764

OCLC:

1132284543

Publisher Number:

99985400345

Online:

The Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company Home Page