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‘“What?” said the reverend gent, “Dance through my hours of
leisure? Smoke? Bathe myself with scent? Play croquet? Oh, with
pleasure!”’ Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic
operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, but
another of his great – and numerous – literary contributions
were his humorous ballads, written and illustrated under the
pseudonym ‘Bab’. Combining his trademark absurdist wit with
keenly observed character studies, the ballads are a satirical tour
de force that lambast society figures. This new selection, chosen
and introduced by Andrew Crowther, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert
Society, brings together the very best of the ballads and presents
the ‘Bab’ works for a new readership.
'Take care. The consequences of an act are often much more numerous
and important than people have any idea of.' Today W.S. Gilbert is
best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with
Arthur Sullivan, a creative partnership that diverged over the
supernatural. Unlike Sullivan, Gilbert was a great fan of fairy
tales, and Foggerty's Fairy, one of his most unjustly neglected
plays, is a brilliant farcical comedy that hinges on the
wish-granting of a fairy. Loosely based on his short story 'The
Story of a Twelfth Cake', Foggerty's Fairy considers the dangers of
playing with the past. Trying to shore up his relationship, a man
enlists a fairy's help to make a few tweaks in his past - he soon
realises, however, these small changes have made great waves
through time, and his present becomes unbearable.
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Engaged (Paperback)
W. S. Gilbert; Introduction by Andrew Crowther
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R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and
the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert, witty, caustic and
disrespectful, was one of the celebrities of the late Victorian
age. In his time he had been many things: journalist, theatre
critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short
stories and dramatist; a political satire he wrote was banned by
the Lord Chamberlain at the personal insistence of the Prince of
Wales. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time.
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. In this book
his glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought
vividly to life.
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