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.

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Literature & Fiction

Gilbert, William Schwenck

Sullivan, Arthur Seymour

Dramas & Plays

W.W.Norton&Company

A lighthearted burlesque of Victorian English culture and the vagaries of love, The Mikado offers an ideal matching of William Schwenck Gilbert's elegant comedic gifts with Arthur Sullivan's agile and refined musicianship. The tale unfolds amid a fanciful version of Japanese society, in which a wandering minstrel has the misfortune to fall in love with the beautiful ward of the Lord High Executioner of Titipu. The sparkling lyrics and witty dialogue of this comic masterpiece are as much a delight to read as they are to hear with musical accompaniment. The complete libretto is reprinted in this edition from the standard performance text of The Mikado, complete with nine charming illustrations drawn by W. S. Gilbert himself.

The Mikado (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Among the most popular of the many well-loved works of Gilbert and Sullivan, H. M. S. Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor was written to be sung and acted on the stage; nevertheless, its sparkling lyrics and dialog shine no less brightly from the printed page. Pinafore satirizes the unlikely plot twists of grand opera and Victorian social rectitude with the tale of Josephine, the captain's daughter, and Ralph, the lowly sailor who seeks her hand. A comic gem, full of saucy banter and inventive rhymes.

H. M. S. Pinafore (Dover Thrift Editions)

Dover Publications

Original Plays

History

BiblioLife

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Mikado (Dover Thrift Editions)

H. M. S. Pinafore (Dover Thrift Editions)

Original Plays

Original Plays

Original Plays

Original Plays

Original Plays

Original Plays

Original Plays