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Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan: His Life and Character - Couverture rigide

Crowther, Andrew

 
9780752455891: Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan: His Life and Character
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0752455893 ISBN 13 : 9780752455891
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, and 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. In his time Gilbert had been many things: journalist, theatre critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, writer of short stories, dramatist. Andrew Crowther examines W.S. Gilbert from all these angles, using a wealth of sources to tell 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 Gilbert's glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Crowther is the secretary of the W S Gilbert Society and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: the Plays of W S Gilbert.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0752455893
ISBN 13 
9780752455891
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
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