{"product_id":"the-complete-savoy-operas-folio-society-888","title":"The Complete Savoy Operas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Savoy Operas, by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (2v.), introduced by Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, with contemporary photographs of actors and stage sets, posters and programmes in colour and monochrome. Quarter red cloth, grey cloth boards, red endleaves patterned in dark brown. Grey two-volume slipcase with a design in colour by David Eccles. 25.2 x 16.3 cm. Vol 1 fourteen leaves of plates, 321 pp Vol 2 eighteen pages of plates, 344 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Savoy Operas brings together the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, including such familiar works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Mistaken identities, improbable legal distinctions and elaborate social rituals give Gilbert opportunities to mock class, authority and respectable hypocrisy, while Sullivan's music helped make the partnership a theatrical phenomenon. Reading the words reveals the precision of the jokes, the ingenuity of the plots and the verbal rhythms of Victorian musical comedy at its most enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216469836115,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421144138067,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/the-complete-savoy-operas-folio-society-888","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}