Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
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Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Gilbert W S 1836-1911
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781313386760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
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Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: W S 1836-1911 Gilbert
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355948902
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: W. S. Gilbert
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483339842
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Jim Farron presents information on the play "Foggerty's Fairy," by English librettist and poet William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911). The information is part of the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Farron includes a plot summary and the full text of the play.

Author: W. Gilbert
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ISBN: 9781731463180
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Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Foggerty's Fairy; and Other Tales were contributed by W. S. Gilbert to the leading London journals, on which many of his comic operas were founded. As the author of "Bab" Ballads and "Pinafore", W. S. Gilbert needs no introduction to American readers. The tales on which his operas were founded can afford not less delight to their readers than the operas themselves have done to their hearers. * * * * * Foggerty's Fairy, and Other Tales. By W. S. Gilbert. (Routledge.) -- With many of the stories in this book, the public -- or at least a considerable section of it -- must be tolerably familiar. Five of them -- "Foggerty's Fairy," "An Elixir of Love," "Creatures of Impulse," "The Wicked World," and "Comedy and Tragedy" -- have already, to all intents and purposes, seen the light on the stage. Of their literary qualities little, therefore, need be said, except, perhaps, that "The Elixir of Love" is preferable to The Sorcerer, which is based on it. Some of the other stories in this volume show us Mr. Gilbert in his most Jerroldian vein. Take, for example, the pleasant story of "Johnny Pounce," which abounds in such neatly turned sentences as: "The salary was small, but then so was Johnny, and it was understood that the two should increase, and grow up together -- an arrangement which was fortunately broken through, for, at fifteen, Johnny became physically a constant quantity." "The Burglar's Story" and "The Finger of Fate" are excellent specimens of Mr. Gilbert's special humour. Dolly Fortescue, in "The Finger of Fate," is as grotesque an absurdity in her way, as the auth author of "The Bab Ballads" has ever presented his admirers with. --The Spectator, Volumes 64-65

Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979026758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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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 the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.The popularity of these works was supported for over a century by year-round performances of them, in Britain and abroad, by the repertory company that they founded, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Eleven of the Savoy operas continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Lines from these works have become part of the English language, such as "short, sharp shock", "What, never? Well, hardly ever!", and "Let the punishment fit the crime".Gilbert's creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, and numerous short stories, poems and lyrics, both comic and serious. After brief careers as a government clerk and a lawyer, Gilbert began to focus, in the 1860s, on writing light verse, including his Bab Ballads, short stories, theatre reviews and illustrations, often for Fun magazine

Author: W.S. Gilbert
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724743
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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‘Take care. The consequences of an act are often much more numerous and important than people have any idea of.’ Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, a creative partnership that diverged over the supernatural. Unlike Sullivan, Gilbert was a great fan of fairy tales, and Foggerty’s Fairy, one of his most unjustly neglected plays, is a brilliant farcical comedy that hinges on the wish-granting of a fairy. Loosely based on his short story ‘The Story of a Twelfth Cake’, Foggerty’s Fairy considers the dangers of playing with the past. Trying to shore up his relationship, a man enlists a fairy’s help to make a few tweaks in his past – he soon realises, however, these small changes have made great waves through time, and his present becomes unbearable. 'The wildest absurdity ever perpetrated.' The Era

Author: John Frederick Sargent
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: William S Gilbert
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714549053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "e;let the punishment fit the crime"e; have entered the English lexicon - but his short stories also deserve to be rediscovered by the modern reader. This collection, carefully curated by the secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the best of these sharp, clever, comical tales - many of which are published here for the first time since their first appearance in ephemeral magazines - enriched with the author's own illustrations. The stories feature many of the powerful motifs so associated with his work - fairies, elixirs, magic - and a wide variety of characters - from burglars to barristers and shopkeepers to gentlemen. This volume is shot through with the observational wit which drove Gilbert and Sullivan's works to fame, and constitutes a hugely enjoyable companion for fans of the pair's theatrical oeuvre.