Gilbert and Sullivan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Gilbert, Mostly without Sullivan

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. William Schwenck Gilbert: an Autobiography

      • William Schwenck Gilbert

      Pages 3-17

   3. My Lifetime

      • John Hollingshead

      Pages 17-18

   4. Portraits of the Eighties

      • Horace G. Hutchinson

      Pages 19-22

   5. A Sporting and Dramatic Career

      • Alfred E. T. Watson

      Pages 22-30

   6. London Letters and Some Others

      • George Washburn Smalley

      Pages 31-32

   7. Anglo-American Memories, Second Series

      • George Washburn Smalley

      Pages 32-37

   8. William Schwenck Gilbert: the Man, the Humourist, the Artist

      • Malcolm C. Salaman

      Pages 37-42

   9. Real Conversations

      • William Archer

      Pages 42-47

   10. Old Days in Bohemian London (Recollections of Clement Scott)

       • Clement Scott

       Pages 48-51

   11. “Fallen Fairies”: Sir W. S. Gilbert on the New Savoy Opera; Amusing Reminiscences

       • Harold Orel

       Pages 51-54

   12. Once a Clown, Always a Clown

       • DeWolf Hopper, Wesley Winans Stout

       Pages 55-56

3. Sullivan, Mostly without Gilbert

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Memories of a Musical Career

      • Clara Kathleen Rogers, Clara Doria

      Pages 59-66

   3. Mid-Victorian Memories

      • R. E. Francillon

      Pages 66-67

   4. The Life and Letters of Sir George Grove, CB

      • Charles L. Graves

      Pages 67-68

   5. Masters of English Music

      • Charles Willeby

      Pages 69-73

   6. Melodies and Memories

      • Nellie Melba

      Pages 74-76

   7. Recollections of Arthur Sullivan

      • Edward Dicey

      Pages 76-88

Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses, journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees everywhere, this entertaining collection will provide fresh insights into the careers and collaborative achievements of one of the most successful - and enduring - enterprises of Victorian theatre.

• comic
• humour
• interview
• music
• satire
• theatre
• Victorian era

• University of Kansas, USA

  Harold Orel

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