Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World write by Christopher Hibbert. This book was released on 1976. Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431–1519
The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431–1519 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431–1519 write by Christopher Hibbert. This book was released on 2009-09-16. The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431–1519 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame—Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, and that brother, Cesare, who inspired Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. Notorious for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder, the dynasty’s dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. From the author of The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and other acclaimed works, The Borgias and Their Enemies is “a fascinating read” (Library Journal).
W.S. Gilbert
W.S. Gilbert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook W.S. Gilbert write by Jane W. Stedman. This book was released on 1996. W.S. Gilbert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.
Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World
Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World write by Christopher Hibbert. This book was released on 1976. Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not one of some seventy plays written by the most popular playwright of the English stage in Victoria's time is known to anyone but archivists today. That same fate befell the works of England's most honored composer of the period. His oratorios, odes, symphonic music, an opera--are all but silent now, save two incidental pieces (you have heard of them: "The Lost Chord" and "Onward Christian Soldiers"). But rarely have the serious works of contemporary geniuses more roundly flunked the test of time. Fame is fleeting. Yet join these two forgotten names with an ampersand, and you get Gilbert & Sullivan. Now fame is forever - or for a century and more, at least, and surely that's forever on a comic-opera stage. Gilbert & Sullivan revolutionized the theatre world, and to this day that world is a happier place because of their innovations. It was 1875 when Trial by Jury first dazzled London and (in a pirated version) New York audiences with the color and with and bounce of a Gilbert & Sullivan show. So the start of Gilbert & Sullivan's second century provides a fine occasion to look again at the story behind these amazing comic operas. The lives of William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) were as dramatic, amusing, far-fetched, throat-catching--and scenic--as their stagecraft. Beneath the two men's enormously popular collaborations were two hearts that beat as two. They simply did not get along. The trigger-tempered Gilbert, with his razor tongue and steady work habits, couldn't understand Sullivan's amiable procrastinations and easy social successes. Sullivan was convinced that his real genius was expressed by his prestigious music. Yet success after success forced the team to stay together for fifteen glorious years under the aegis of the polished Richard D'Oyly Carte. Then the whole thing blew up in a tragicomic quarrel about a carpet. If that plot resembles a Victorian romana a clef, so be it. Fictional romances exhibit no more posh settings, beautiful women, and crackling argument. There's even a touch of royalty, and a few absurdities, as well as a tragic climax. --from dust jacket.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gilbert and Sullivan write by Carolyn Williams. This book was released on 2012. Gilbert and Sullivan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and how parody was used in the culture wars of late-nineteenth-century England.
