Gilbert & Sullivan and their Victorian world
1976
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4.00
Average Rating
286
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The dramas written by the most popular playwright of the Victorian era and the music of that era's most honored composer are largely unknown today. Yet join these two together and you get Gilbert & Sullivan who together revolutionized the world of musical comedy in the late 1800s. However, behind their enormously popular collaboration, they simply did not get along. It was success after success that forced the team to stay together for fifteen glorious years. The start of the second century of Gilbert & Sullivan's popularity provides a fine occasion to look again at the story behind these brilliant men and their amazing comic operas. "With humor, drama and whimsy as infectious today as it was 100 years ago, Gilbert & Sullivan continue to sparkle in this refreshing work" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board) (Now a Major Motion Picture titled TOPSY TURVY)
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Author
Christopher Hibbert
Author · 47 books
Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 - 21 December 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as "a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship.
