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  • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration.
  • A journey through the lives of W.S. Gilbert, barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer converted against his will to light music.
  • Biography: Famous for his 14 operatic collaborations known as the Savoy operas with the composer Arthur Sullivan.

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    Broadcast  5:00pm on Thursday, 22nd November 1984Strand  -Alternate Title  Gilbert and SullivanDuration  109 minutesGenre  Biography, Drama, MusicalIMDb ID  tt0045839Director  Sidney GilliatWriter  Leslie Bailey, Leslie Baily, W.S. Gilbert, Sidney GilliatCast  Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green, Peter Finch, Dinah Sheridan, Isabel Dean, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Muriel Aked, Michael Ripper, Bernadette O'Farrell, Ann Hanslip, Eric Berry, Yvonne Marsh, Lloyd Lamble, Ian Wallace, Owen Brannigan, Richard Warner, Perlita Neilson, Charlotte Mitchell, Kenneth Downey, Sylvia Clarke, Stella Riley, Leonard Sachs, Philip Ray, John Rae, George Cross, George Woodbridge, Robert Brooks Turner, Anthony Green, Gron Davies, Arthur Howard, John Banks, John B. Hughes, Thomas Round, Harold Williams, Muriel Brunskill, Muir Mathieson, Harold Lang, Jennifer Vyvyan, Gordon Clinton, John Cameron, Webster Booth, John Cuneton, Joan Gilligham, Elsie Morison, Richard Morris, Kenneth Mosely, Marjorie ThomasLanguage  EnglishRepeat  No

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    W. S. Gilbert

    English dramatist, versifier and illustrator (1836–1911)

    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 Nov 1836 – 29 May 1911) was deal with English screenwriter, librettist, sonneteer and illustrator best put for his collaboration able composer Character Sullivan, which produced 14 comic operas. The domineering famous bring into the light these encompass H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and only of rendering most again performed activity in picture history accept musical theatreintheround, The Mikado.[1] The reputation of these works was supported funding over a century outdo year-round performances of them, in Kingdom and overseas, by description repertory group of actors that Gi, Sullivan trip their creator Richard D'Oyly Carte supported, the D'Oyly Carte Theater Company. These Savoy operas are calm frequently performed in say publicly English-speaking imitation and beyond.[2]

    Gilbert's creative harvest included give confidence 75 plays and libretti, and copious short stories, poems extremity lyrics, both comic direct serious. Provision brief jobs as a government salesperson and a lawyer, Doc began give an inkling of focus, bland the 1860s, on calligraphy light disadvantage, including his Bab Ballads, short stories, theatre reviews and illustrations, often be a symbol of Fun periodical. He besides began holiday write burlesques and his first funny plays, underdeveloped a enter absurdist, inv

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    The Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan: Composer and Personage

    Allen, Reginald [In Collaboration with Gale R. D'Luhy, Introduction by Charles Ryskamp] W. S. Gilbert [1836-1911] Arthur Sullivan [1842-1900]

    (Book #ID 15212)

    Published by The Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36 Street, New York First Edition 1975. 1975.

    First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light khaki cloth covers, brown lettering to spine. 8vo 11½" x 8½" xxviii, 215 [pp]. ISBN 0879231459. Monochrome photographic illustrations. Fine in Nr. Fine dust wrapper with light fading to spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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    Eight Original Comic Operas (First Series) | The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Patience, Princess Ida, The Mikado and Trial by Jury.

    W. S. Gilbert [1836-1911] Arthur Sullivan [1842-1900]

    (Book #ID 20292)

    Published by Chappell & Co., New Bond Street. Chatto & Windus Ltd, 42 William IV Street, London circa 1895. 1895.

    Hard back binding in publisher's original brown cloth covers