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W. S. Gilbert

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"The Disagreeable Man" by W. S. Gilbert - Sunday #Poem

 

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The Life and Death of WS Gilbert

 

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W. S. Gilbert "Patience" Poem animation

 

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W S Gilbert #shorts

 

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Love, Unrequited (The Nightmare Song) by W. S. Gilbert (read by John Lithgow)

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. The popularity of these works was supported for over a century by year-round performances of them, in Britain and abroad, by the repertory company that Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer Richard D'Oyly Carte founded, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. These Savoy operas continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond.
  • Personal 

  • Beginnings 

  • First plays 

  • German Reed entertainments and other plays of the early 1870s 

  • As director 

  • First collaborations amidst other works 

  • Peak collaborative years 

  • Carpet quarrel and end of the collaboration 

  • Later years 

  • Personality 

  • Legacy