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This category describes people who were particularly known for their friendships or other associations with W. S. Gilbert and/or Arthur Sullivan and/or Richard D'Oyly Carte or their families. It also includes a few later scholars of Gilbert and Sullivan, but people who were or are better known as performers or conductors of Gilbert and Sullivan ...
Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14804-7. Wilson, Robin; Frederic Lloyd (1984). Gilbert & Sullivan: The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 978-0-394-54113-6. Wolfson, John (1976). Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. London ...
The last of Gilbert's "fairy comedies", this was one of Gilbert's favourite plays. Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876). A three-act drama that introduced antecedents of some of Gilbert's later characters. Engaged (1877). Probably the most famous of Gilbert's non-Sullivan works for the theatre.
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The Bab Ballads became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert recycled in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. They were read aloud at private dinner-parties, at public banquets and even in the House of Lords .
In The Getaway Blues by William Murray, the main character names all his racehorses after Gilbert and Sullivan characters and constantly quotes G&S. [131] Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free is a novel by Kathleen Karr based on a historical event in 1914, when the inmates of Sherborn Women's Prison in Massachusetts, U.S., put on a performance of ...
Suart as Bunthorne in Patience alongside Gillian Knight as Lady Jane. Richard Suart (born September 1951) is an English opera singer and actor, who has specialised in the comic roles of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and in operetta, as well as in avant-garde modern operas.
Sullivan acknowledged Gilbert's contributions in his preface to Martyr, attributing to Gilbert "the change which in one or two cases (marked with an asterisk [numbers 2, 8 and 10, and also number 15, which is missing the asterisk.] [8]) has been necessary from blank verse to rhyme; and for these and many valuable suggestions, he returns Mr ...