Andrew Crowther

Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan (eBook, ePUB)

His Life and Character

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 age. He wrote the most brilliantly inventive plays of 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752463858
• Artikelnr.: 38220442

Autorenporträt

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.