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Description:Priscilla Horton and her husband, Thomas German Reed were a famous theatrical couple whose "Gallery of Illustration" offered respectable family entertainment to proper Victorians who shunned the normal playhouse. Their performances, Miss Stedman writes: "became an English equivalent of the Bouffes Parisiens but 'quite free from coarseness' as the Athenaeum pointed out." Among the many talents this couple helped shape were those of both Gilbert and Sullivan who were in the Gallery's stable of the sixties but had not yet teamed.The six one-act plays with music collected here were written by Gilbert for the Reeds and staged between 1869 and 1875. Miss Stedman, in her engaging introduction, traces Gilbert's apprenticeship and comments on these early prototypes of the Savoy operas. In so doing she entertainingly defines the nature of Victorian comedy.The book is charmingly illustrated with Gilbert's own line drawings, and includes the complete score of Ages Ago, the forerunner of Ruddigore. The other plays are No Cards, A Sensation Novel, Happy Arcadia, Eyes and No Eyes, and Our Island Home. The last of these is published here for the first time, and the others, collected for the first time, are hard to find. In rescuing these plays from near-oblivion, Miss Stedman will have won the gratitude of all who can never get enough of the Savoy operas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gilbert before Sullivan: six comic plays,. To get started finding Gilbert before Sullivan: six comic plays,, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Priscilla Horton and her husband, Thomas German Reed were a famous theatrical couple whose "Gallery of Illustration" offered respectable family entertainment to proper Victorians who shunned the normal playhouse. Their performances, Miss Stedman writes: "became an English equivalent of the Bouffes Parisiens but 'quite free from coarseness' as the Athenaeum pointed out." Among the many talents this couple helped shape were those of both Gilbert and Sullivan who were in the Gallery's stable of the sixties but had not yet teamed.The six one-act plays with music collected here were written by Gilbert for the Reeds and staged between 1869 and 1875. Miss Stedman, in her engaging introduction, traces Gilbert's apprenticeship and comments on these early prototypes of the Savoy operas. In so doing she entertainingly defines the nature of Victorian comedy.The book is charmingly illustrated with Gilbert's own line drawings, and includes the complete score of Ages Ago, the forerunner of Ruddigore. The other plays are No Cards, A Sensation Novel, Happy Arcadia, Eyes and No Eyes, and Our Island Home. The last of these is published here for the first time, and the others, collected for the first time, are hard to find. In rescuing these plays from near-oblivion, Miss Stedman will have won the gratitude of all who can never get enough of the Savoy operas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gilbert before Sullivan: six comic plays,. To get started finding Gilbert before Sullivan: six comic plays,, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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