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Plays by W. S. Gilbert

Author : George Rowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1982-03-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521235891

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This edition includes four plays and one libretto, covering more than twenty years of the dramatist's career: The Palace of Truth (1870), Sweethearts (1874), Princess Toto (1876), Engaged (1877) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891). The collection demonstrates that Gilbert was an original dramatist in his own right. The sophisticated irony of his plays challenged the conventions of the Victorian burlesque and sentimental comedy by demanding, and receiving, an intelligent response from the audience. George Rowell's useful and thorough introduction, which presents the theatrical background to Gilbert's development, also shows the dramatist's influence on Pinero, Wilde and Shaw. Gilbert's style combines a technique rarely realistic and stretching to fantasy with a tone apparently cynical and in fact deeply pessimistic. This odd pairing of fantasy and fatalism was recognized by his own and later generations as 'Gilbertian' and the term has been widely applied even outside the theatre.

Plays and Poems

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1935
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The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert

Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Humorous stories, English
ISBN : 9780860513377

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Best known for his humorous operettas and short stories, W. S. Gilbert also wrote stories based on his life, including the biographical "My Maiden Brief" and "The Lady in the Plaid Shawl", fantastic fairy stories, and thoughtful short stories, as "Jones' VIctoria Cross" and "Diamonds", here included.