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Available
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Publication
The Modern Library (Random House)
Pages
711
Description
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.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
711 p.; 8.25 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member antiquary
This was my father's copy I got my own paperback later) and one of my favorite books as a teenager. I memorized chunks of it (though not complete songs) and recited them in music class, I did part of the dialog from Ruddigore as a humorous declamation in speech contests, etc. My brother used a play
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game by opening the book randomly and reading a few lines and I would tell which opera they were from. Looking at the plays now I can see some are dated for what would not be racist, sexist, or class humor, but a lot is still funny at least to me, with very ingenious wordplays. Show Less
LibraryThing member antiquary
Simply a more compact inexpensive version of the complete text of the operettas. I bought it when I was not living at home with access to my parents' Modern Library edition which I have since inherited
LibraryThing member leslie.98
4 stars for the content but only 3 stars for this particular Kindle edition (from Project Gutenberg) which suffered from formatting problems.
This book contains the 14 operas that Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated on. I have rated the individual plays/operettas separately.
This book contains the 14 operas that Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated on. I have rated the individual plays/operettas separately.
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FIC E Gil