Plays by W. S. Gilbert
The Palace of the Truth, Sweethearts, Princess Toto, Engaged, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
$58.98
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
4 March 1982
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521280563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521280567 |
| Author: | George Rowell |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 1982 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 12mm |
| Series: | British and American Playwrights |
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George Rowell
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, KBE, was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator, best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, of which the most famous include “H.M.S. Pinafore”, “The Pirates of Penzance”, and “The Mikado”.
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