The Complete Savoy Operas

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The Complete Savoy Operas
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

The Complete Savoy Operas

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Edition year 1994
Binding Cloth
Illustrator David Eccles
Volumes 2
Weight 2 Kg
Pages Vol. 1: 321; Vol. 2: 344
Dimensions 25.2 × 16.3 cm

Edition details

The 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.

About the book

The 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.

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