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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.
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. W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) began his career as a civil servant and later was a barrister at law before he became known as a writer and artist for the humor magazine Fun and other periodicals. His Bab Ballads, published in Fun between 1866 and 1871, were widely read, and provided a core of ideas to which he would repeatedly return ...
May 26, 2023 · The Savoy operas: being the complete text of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas as originally produced in the years 1875-1896 / by Sir W.S. Gilbert by W.S. (William Schwenck) 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 performed works in the history of musical theater, The Mikado.
May 25, 2001 · William Schwenk Gilbert (b London, 18 November 1836; d Harrow Weald, 29 May 1911). The most talented librettist and lyricist for—and, as one half of the show-writing tandem Gilbert and Sullivan, the modern flagbearer of—the 19th-century English-language theatre.
