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Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated)

By: William Schwenck Gilbert,Arthur Seymour Sullivan

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Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated)

By: William Schwenck Gilbert,Arthur Seymour Sullivan

The Victorian theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas that would exact a major influence on the history of theatre. Such popular classics as ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘The Mikado’ conjured fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds, where absurd premises are taken to a logical conclusion. Notable for their humour and pathos, these celebrated operas enjoyed an enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents Gilbert’s complete extant works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gilbert and Sullivan’s lives and works * Concise introductions to the operas and other texts * All of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, with individual contents tables * Features Gilbert’s other dramatic plays and librettos, many appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for Gilbert’s poetry * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Includes Gilbert’s complete Bab Ballads – available in no other collection * THE BAB BALLADS collection is illustrated with Gilbert’s original artwork * Includes Gilbert’s short fiction * Features four biographies - discover Gilbert and Sullivan’s extraordinary history * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Gilbert and Sullivan Works THESPIS TRIAL BY JURY THE SORCERER H.M.S. PINAFORE THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE PATIENCE IOLANTHE PRINCESS IDA THE MIKADO RUDDYGORE THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD THE GONDOLIERS UTOPIA, LIMITED THE GRAND DUKE Gilbert’s Other Dramatic Works RUY BLAS DULCAMARA LA VIVANDIÈRE ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN A COLOSSAL IDEA HARLEQUIN COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN THE MERRY ZINGARA ROBERT THE DEVIL NO CARDS THE PRETTY DRUIDESS AGES AGO A MEDICAL MAN THE PRINCESS THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK OUR ISLAND HOME THE PALACE OF TRUTH THE BRIGANDS RANDALL’S THUMB A SENSATION NOVEL CREATURES OF IMPULSE GREAT EXPECTATIONS ON GUARD PYGMALION AND GALATEA HAPPY ARCADIA THE WICKED WORLD THE HAPPY LAND THE WEDDING MARCH CHARITY TOPSYTURVEYDOM SWEETHEARTS ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN TOM COBB EYES AND NO EYES; OR, THE ART OF SEEING BROKEN HEARTS PRINCESS TOTO DAN’L DRUCE, BLACKSMITH ON BAIL ENGAGED THE NE’ER-DO-WEEL GRETCHEN FOGGERTY’S FAIRY BRANTINGHAME HALL THE MOUNTEBANKS HIS EXCELLENCY THE FORTUNE HUNTER HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY’S DILEMMA THE HOOLIGAN TRYING A DRAMATIST Gilbert’s Short Fiction FOGGERTY’S FAIRY AND OTHER TALES THE STORY OF H.M.S. PINAFORE Gilbert’s Poetry Collections THE BAB BALLADS MORE BAB BALLADS SONGS OF A SAVOYARD MISCELLANEOUS BAB BALLADS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Biographies W. S. GILBERT by Louis Engel SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN by Louis Engel SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN by George Grossmith GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA: A HISTORY AND COMMENT by H. M. Walbrook Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1786560666

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9781786560667

The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert

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The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert

The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are a performing arts phenomenon. Wildly popular when first produced, they are if anything even more popular today. The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all thirteen of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas still being performed today, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Each work is thoroughly annotated, with the text, including stage directions, given on the right-hand page, and the notes on the left. The annotations provide a wealth of information--everything from the identity of real-life people mentioned in the opera, to clear explanations of obscure words and phrases (such as legal terms) and other literary references, to comments from first-night critics, and much more. In addition, Bradley has written a marvelously informative introduction to the book as well as superb introductions to each piece, describing the genesis of the work, its performance history, and other fascinating tidbits. A goldmine of information, The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan will delight the hearts of Savoyards everywhere.

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0198167105

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British Playwrights, 1880-1956

A Research and Production Sourcebook

By: William W. Demastes,Katherine Kelly

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British Playwrights, 1880-1956

A Research and Production Sourcebook

By: William W. Demastes,Katherine Kelly

From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032653

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9780313032653

The Sorcerer

By: W. S. Gilbert,Arthur Sullivan

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The Sorcerer

By: W. S. Gilbert,Arthur Sullivan

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English dramatist, librettist and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H. M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. These, as well as most of their other Savoy operas, continue to be performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Gilbert illustrated poems for several comic magazines, primarily Fun. The poems, illustrated humourously by Gilbert, proved immensely popular and were reprinted in book form as the Bab Ballads. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W. S. Gilbert. In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn prize and went to study at the Royal Academy of Music until 1858. He then continued his studies at Leipzig, Germany, at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre where he also took up conducting. He composed play scores on numerous occasions. Early examples included The Merchant of Venice (1871), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1874) and Henry VIII (1877).

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1409949850

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9781409949855

The Mikado

By: William Schwenck Gilbert

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The Mikado

By: William Schwenck Gilbert

A lighthearted burlesque of Japanese culture and the vagaries of love, this operetta's lyrics and dialogue are as delightful to read as they are to hear. Includes nine illustrations by Gilbert.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486159167

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9780486159164

Publishing Glad Tidings

Essays on Christmas Music

By: William Emmett Studwell,Dorothy E. Jones

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Publishing Glad Tidings

Essays on Christmas Music

By: William Emmett Studwell,Dorothy E. Jones

Get yourself a cup of eggnog, sit down in front of a warm fire (chestnut roasting is optional), and let Publishing Glad Tidings: Essays on Christmas Music thrill and inspire you as you learn about those who have dedicated their lives to preserving, collecting, and creating the traditional art form of the Christmas carol. This enlightening volume's personal and historical perspective will help you see why Christmas carols continue to fill our lives with simple, lasting joy and why they endure as cultural, religious, and artistic gifts to humanity. Publishing Glad Tidings will help you see how major, but once nearly forgotten, Christmas carols have stayed with us throughout the years. You'll get detailed information as to how these carols were written, compiled, collected, and ultimately wrapped up in eye- and ear-catching packages for us to enjoy every year when December rolls around. Inside this joyously decorated book, you'll find information about: carol pioneers Theodoric Petri, Davies Gilbert, and William Sandys carol historians Edmondstoune Duncan, Charles L. Hutchins, and Edward Bliss Reed carol compiling, collecting, translating, and editing how relative obscurity has made some carols classics So come all ye faithful who are interested in keeping this grand old tradition alive. Publishing Glad Tidings is just the invitation you need to come in from the cold and wassail your way through an intriguing, heartfelt part of yuletide history. If you're a church musician, musical historian, pastor, or just a general reader interested in Christmas and music, you'll find everything you need to know about the carol's history and future right here.

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Psychology Press

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0789003988

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9780789003980

The Mikado

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert,Carl Simpson,Ephraim Hammett Jones

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The Mikado

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert,Carl Simpson,Ephraim Hammett Jones

Three little maids from school are we," "The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la," many other charming melodies from ever-popular operetta. Newly edited, newly engraved full-score performing edition by Ephraim Jones and Carl Simpson, based on Sullivan's autograph and the first edition of the full score.

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Courier Corporation

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0486406261

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9780486406268

Vocal Score of Iolanthe - Or, The Peer and The Peri

By: William Schwenck Gilbert

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Vocal Score of Iolanthe - Or, The Peer and The Peri

By: William Schwenck Gilbert

This book contains the complete vocal score of "Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri". "Iolanthe" is a comic musical opera written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. This volume will be of utility to those interested in performing the Savoy Operas, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector. 'Savoy Opera' was a form of opera developed in Victorian England by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composer-librettist teams. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911) an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473351391

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The National and Religious Song Reader

Patriotic, Traditional, and Sacred Songs from Around the World

By: William Emmett Studwell

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The National and Religious Song Reader

Patriotic, Traditional, and Sacred Songs from Around the World

By: William Emmett Studwell

William Studwell has done it again! In The National and Religious Song Reader, the author presents more than 120 enjoyable and informative essays on national, patriotic, and religious songs from around the world. Readers will learn the answers to such questions as: Was "Dixie" actually first performed in New York City? Which 16th-century English composition is referred to by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor? What well-known hymn was written by Martin Luther in 1529? And what is a waltzing matilda anyway? (Hint: It's not a dancing young lady.) Studwell's latest collection follows the form and style of his earlier works, The Popular Song Reader and The Christmas Carol Reader, as he relays interesting facts about each song through anecdotes, humor, poetry, and a generally lighthearted yet scholarly approach. In addition to information about each song and its composer, the author also discusses how the song reflected society at the time and how the song itself has influenced popular culture. The book is divided into four sections: American National Songs: armed forces songs, war songs, national anthems, national marches National Songs From Other Countries: songs from Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Ireland, Israel, Australia General Hymns: religious songs from the 17th century and earlier, and the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries Songs Associated With Religious Events: Easter, Thanksgiving, weddings, funerals The book's readable style is its most important quality as it makes it more approachable than a typical reference book. And vital to its usefulness as a reference book are the indexes--one by song title and another by person or group. Whether used primarily as an enjoyable reference or as an informative reader, The National and Religious Song Reader is bound to provide new insights into familiar songs for all music fans.

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Psychology Press

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0789000997

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9780789000996

Plays by W. S. Gilbert

The Palace of the Truth, Sweethearts, Princess Toto, Engaged, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

By: George Rowell

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Plays by W. S. Gilbert

The Palace of the Truth, Sweethearts, Princess Toto, Engaged, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

By: George Rowell

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521235898

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9780521235891

H.M.S. Pinafore

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert

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H.M.S. Pinafore

By: Arthur Sullivan,William Schwenck Gilbert

Famed duo's first smash hit about a lowly able seaman who falls in love with the Captain's daughter is now available in a handsome new edition, using original manuscripts and early sources. This will be an indispensable rehearsal aid for soloists, chorus members, and pianists.

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048642202X

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9780486422022

Book's by William Schwenck Gilbert

Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Gilbert and Sullivan (Illustrated)

The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

British Playwrights, 1880-1956

British Playwrights, 1880-1956

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

The Mikado

The Mikado

Publishing Glad Tidings

Publishing Glad Tidings

The Mikado

The Mikado

Vocal Score of Iolanthe - Or, The Peer and The Peri

Vocal Score of Iolanthe - Or, The Peer and The Peri

The National and Religious Song Reader

The National and Religious Song Reader

Plays by W. S. Gilbert

Plays by W. S. Gilbert

H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore

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