The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan (Paperback, Revised)

From Trial by Jury to The Pirates of Penzance: the complete librettos of all fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed popularity, Gilbert's reputation as the supreme wordsmith of light opera remains secure.

Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.

General

Imprint:	W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1997
First published:	September 1997
Authors:	William Schwenck Gilbert • Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Dimensions:	210 x 143 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	615
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31688-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Musical theatre Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
LSN:	0-393-31688-2
Barcode:	9780393316889

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