Plays by W. S. Gilbert - The Palace of the Truth, Sweethearts, Princess Toto, Engaged, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

This edition includes four plays and one libretto, covering more than twenty years of the dramatist's career: The Palace of Truth (1870), Sweethearts (1874), Princess Toto (1876), Engaged (1877) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891). The collection demonstrates that Gilbert was an original dramatist in his own right. The sophisticated irony of his plays challenged the conventions of the Victorian burlesque and sentimental comedy by demanding, and receiving, an intelligent response from the audience. George Rowell's useful and thorough introduction, which presents the theatrical background to Gilbert's development, also shows the dramatist's influence on Pinero, Wilde and Shaw. Gilbert's style combines a technique rarely realistic and stretching to fantasy with a tone apparently cynical and in fact deeply pessimistic. This odd pairing of fantasy and fatalism was recognized by his own and later generations as 'Gilbertian' and the term has been widely applied even outside the theatre.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British and American Playwrights 15 Volume Paperback Set
Release date:	March 1982
First published:	1982
Editors:	George Rowell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	200
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-28056-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-521-28056-7
Barcode:	9780521280563

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