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W. S. Gilbert. Cabinet card of W. S. Gilbert in about 1880 by Elliott & Fry. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.
May 25, 2024 · W.S. Gilbert (born November 18, 1836, London, England—died May 29, 1911, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England) was an English playwright and humorist best known for his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan in comic operas. Gilbert began to write in an age of rhymed couplets, puns, and travesty; his early work exhibits the facetiousness common to ...
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by. Andrew Crowther. William Schwenck Gilbert was born at 17 Southampton Street, Strand, London on the 18th of November, 1836, the son of William Gilbert (a retired naval surgeon) and Anne Gilbert. He had, or rather obtained, three younger sisters: Jane, Maud and Florence. Much of the young William's youth was spent touring Europe with his ...
W. S. Gilbert. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his 14 comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and one of the most frequently ...
Jan 25, 2017 · W. S. Gilbert wrote many stage works besides the libretti of the operas written in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan. This page aims to provide a complete list of Gilbert's stage works in chronological order. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas have been included to show their place in the chronology of Gilbert's works.
Aug 7, 2022 · Welcome to the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, which is devoted to the operas and other works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. It was established at Boise State University in 1993 and moved to its present home in 2016. The buttons on the left will take you to the resources we have relating to the fourteen operas on which Gilbert and Sullivan ...
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Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are ...
