Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Sullivan, Arthur Seymour, Sir

ISBN 10: 0393008282 / ISBN 13: 9780393008289

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc [1976], New York, 1976

About this Item

Binding sound and tight without spine crease. Cover has minimal wear. Pages clean and unmarked. ; The Norton library; 1.25 x 7.5 x 4.75 Inches; 624 pages.

Seller Inventory # 11050

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc [1976], New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393008282
• ISBN 13: 9780393008289
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: Later Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama & Stage
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Plays
  • Anthologies

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Review

From Thespis to The Grand Duke, here are all the words to all the operettas on which William Schenk Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan collaborated. A fixture in Anglo-American music theater and humor for well over a century, their wit retains its edge after all these years. Norton offers the libretti available in handy, totable book form and generously illustrates them with Gilbert's accomplished pen-and-ink drawings.