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Drama

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

by Arthur Sullivan

About 10 h 46 min of reading41 chapters

This collection gathers the librettos of all fourteen comic operas that W. S. Gilbert wrote and Arthur Sullivan set to music between 1871 and 1896. It includes Thespis, whose score is lost, Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe, Princess Ida, The Mikado, Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke. Gilbert's topsy-turvy plots, in which logic is pushed until it becomes absurd, take aim at the navy, the law, the aesthetic movement, the House of Lords and Victorian respectability, while the patter songs and lyrics remain among the most quoted light verse in English. Only the words are given here. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first act is free.

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