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  • William Gilbert (– 3 January 1890) was an English writer and Royal Navy surgeon.
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    Gilbert & Sullivan: Off the Stage and On the Page

    Our latest book recommendations article features another appearance from guest contributor Gayden Wren. A couple of months ago, Gayden highlighted books on American country music in the Library's collection, and now he's back with a selection of books on Gilbert & Sullivan. It's a pleasure to again welcome an authority whose erudition spans the gamut from "opera" to "Opry."

    Since the first Gilbert & Sullivan opera premiered in 1871, the Victorian team’s work has become the heart of the musical-theater tradition in the English-speaking world, and spawned a vast literature of books about Gilbert, Sullivan, and their work.  The Library’s collection includes many of these books. Here is a sampling.

    The Gilbert & Sullivan Book, by Leslie Baily (Coward McCann, 1957).

    One of the true classics in the G&S literature has aged well over the course of 60 years. Baily doesn’t analyze the operas, but he tells his story well and benefits from having talked to many then-elderly people who had seen or performed in the original productions. He’s unabashedly partisan to producer Richard D’Oyly Carte (no doubt because Carte’s granddaughter, Bridget D’Oyly Carte, gave him unprecedented access to the company ar

    Libretti (scripts)

    • The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan (ML 49 .S9 A1 1996)
    • The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan (ML 49 .S9 A1 1975)
    • Plays & Poems of W.S. Gilbert (PR 4713 .A1 1932)

     

    Other comic operas, plays and poems by W.S. Gilbert:

    • Plays by W.S. Gilbert (PR 4713 .A4 1982)
    • Gilbert before Sullivan:  Six Comic Plays (ML 49 .G477)
    • The Bab Ballads (PR 4713 .B3 1970)

     

    Biographical and critical

    • Ainger, Michael.  Gilbert and Sullivan:  A Dual Biography (ML 410 .S95 A77 2002; also available as an e-book)
    • Baily, Leslie.  The Gilbert & Sullivan Book (ML 410 .S95 B3 1957)
    • Crowther, Andrew.  Contradiction Contradicted:  The Plays of W.S. Gilbert  (PR 4714 .C76 2000)
    • Crowther, Andrew.  Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan.  (ML 423 .G55 C76 2011)
    • Eden, David, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan (ML 410 .S95 C35 2009)
    • Jacobs, Arthur.  Arthur Sullivan:  A Victorian Musician (ML 410 .S95 J28 1984)
    • Pearson, Hesketh.  Gilbert:  His Life and Strife (PR 4714 .P4 1957)
    • Stedman, Jane W.  W.S. Gilbert:  A Classic Victorian and His Theatre (PR 4714 .S744 1996)
    • Sullivan, Herbert.  Sir Arthur Sullivan:  His Life, Letters & D
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