Articles related to "William S Gilbert"

The life and work of William S. Gilbert, librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta partnership. Famous for The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore, among others.

Continuing the guide to the "musts" of the poetry, prose, and plays of eighteenth and nineteenth century British writers and their works...

Thespis was the first Gilbert & Sullivan opera. It was never published, and most of the music was destroyed in a fire. Only two numbers remain.

Trial by Jury is the earliest surviving comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan. The story concerns a breach-of-promise case.

The Return of the Vampire, starring Bela Lugosi, proves that war can be hazardous to the health and day-to-day activities of the Un-Dead.