‘A sympathetic and illuminating portrait of a quintessential Englishman’ – Ian Bradley
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.
ANDREW CROWTHER is an expert on W.S. Gilbert, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, and the author of Contradiction Contradicted: the Plays of W.S. Gilbert. He lives in Bradford and is himself a playwright.
‘[W.S. Gilbert] had a keen eye for the foibles and eccentricities of his countrymen and their institutions. Andrew Crowther movingly describes the effects of Gilbert's unhappy childhood on his character and the way that he found escape and release in the fairy tale world of pantomime. He is particularly informative on the genesis of Iolanthe, perhaps the most biting and successful piece of social and political satire in the Savoy canon. Loudly let the trumpet bray!’ 
– Ian Bradley, the author of The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character

Crowther, Andrew

Humor & Entertainment

The History Press

The life of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan The author of "The Pirates of Penzance," "The Mikado," "HMS Pinafore," W. S. Gilbert--a witty, caustic, and disrespectful man--was one of the celebrities of the late Victorian age, and in this book his glorious, contradictory character is explored and brought vividly to life. In his time he was many things: journalist, theater critic, cartoonist, comic poet, stage director, short story writer, and dramatist. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of his time, a political satire he wrote was banned by the Lord Chamberlain at the personal insistence of the Prince of Wales, 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. 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.

Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

History Press

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Nurse Managers: A Guide to Practice

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Routledge

Nurses in this first decade of the twenty-first century are facing previously unconsidered challenges. Global workforce shortages are critical: the rate of nurses leaving the profession is accelerating combined with a growing difficulty in attracting new nurses. Nursing care is increasing in its technological complexity with a consequent rise in occupational stress. Within this challenging work environment, the nurse manager's role is a crucial and demanding one. Nurse Managers: A Guide to Practice provides the nurse manager with the essential tools and strategies needed to be effective under pressure.

Nurse Managers (Guide to Practice)

Nursing

Ausmed Pubns

New schoolteacher Jenny Threadneedle has lived for almost as long as she can remember in High Hants, an enclosed idealised Little England. Founded by wealthy white English businessmen and Red Top journalists, aghast at immigration and climate catastrophe, life in High Hants is just perfect - unless you ask questions, or begin to doubt this "1950s paradise" is as wonderful as claimed. A dystopian satire of tiny minds and limited outlook. Is it possible to escape and live a life more Down to Earth?

Down to Earth

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Stairwell Books

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