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W.S. Gilbert
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Jane W. Stedman
Categories: Composers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde a
Plays by W. S. Gilbert
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: George Rowell
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-03-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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), Pr
W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Richard Moore
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment?
W.S. Gilbert
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Sidney Dark
Categories: Dramatists, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 1924 - Publisher: London : Methuen

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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Richard Moore
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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In The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes