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Excerpt from Original Plays by W. S. Gilbert: Containing Comedy and Tragedy, Foggerty's Fairy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Patience, Princess Ida, The Mikado, Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, The Mountebanks, Utopia Limited About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgo...

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Excerpt from Gretchen: A Play, in Four ActsThis piece was produced at the Olympic Theatre under the lessee-ship of Lord Londesborough, on Monday, 24th March, 1879, and was received with exceptional favour by a crowded house. On the ensuing Saturday morning, after an experience offive nights, the company received a fortnight's notice of dismissal, because (to quote a letter ad dressed to me by the ostensible manager of the theatre), Lord Londes...

Excerpt from Utopia Limited, or the Flowers of Progress Melene (lazily). We are very well as we are. Life Without a care - every want supplied by a kind and fatherly monarch, who, despot though he be, has no other thought than to make his people happy - What have we to gain by the great change that is in store for us? Sal. What have we to gain? English institutions, English tastes, and oh, English fashions! Cal. England has made herself wha...

Excerpt from An Entirely Original Fairy Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri We are dainty little fairies, Ever singing, ever dancing, We indulge in our vagaries In a fashion most entrancing. If you ask the special function Of our never-ceasing motion, We reply, Without compunction, That we haven't any notion! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the "Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the "Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language, " according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab, " a childhood nickname, in "Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted...

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Enduringly popular spoof has delighted audiences since its debut in 1885. New vocal score edition includes all voice parts, piano reduction of full score, and complete libretto.

Famed duo's first smash hit about a lowly able seaman who falls in love with the Captain's daughter is now available in a handsome new edition, using original manuscripts and early sources.

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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English dramatist, librettist and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. Gilbert was born in Strand, London and was educated at Boulogne, France and th...

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English dramatist, librettist and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. Gilbert was born in Strand, London and was educated at Boulogne, France and th...