Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Standard Name: Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Used Form: Sir W. S. Gilbert
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | BP
's sister calls their childhood happy, unclouded. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Delafield | EMD
's mother, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (Bonham) de la Pasture
, was a popular and prolific novelist whose work was admired by writers as far-ranging as Ivy Compton-Burnett
and Evelyn Waugh
. She wrote to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Pym | Since Barbara's parents had performed in several musical operettas, and the whole family enjoyed Gilbert
and Sullivan
in particular, the children were comfortable with the form. Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages. 2-3 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Wendy Cope | WC
says she has been influenced by Gilbert
and Sullivan
(one of whose patter songs provides the template for At 70: Of fitness and vitality I am not the epitome) and by Philip Larkin |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | Having delighted in operatic music since her first introduction to Gilbert
and Sullivan
at an early age, she was admitted to listen to Maria Callas
singing in a rehearsal of operas by Gluck
and Verdi |
| Leisure and Society | Oscar Wilde | Gilbert
and Sullivan
's comic opera Patience opened at the Savoy Theatre
; it mocked OW
as the fleshly poet Bunthorne (in, coincidentally, the first English theatre production to use electric lighting on stage). Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 134-5 Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991. 90, chronology |
| Occupation | Florence Marryat | A woman of varied accomplishments, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Swan, Annie S. The Woman at Home. Warwick Magazine Company. 5 (1897): 191 |
| Performance of text | Frances Cornford | When Frances Cornford
was a child, she and her cousin Gwen
were the two chief writers of the annual Darwin family Christmas play. This was written in Gilbert
and Sullivan
style, with complicated plots and... |
| Reception | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Notable among users of the verb to bowdlerize, deriving from the work of Harriet and Thomas, was W. S. Gilbert
in the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera Princess Ida, 1884, which spoofs the... |
| Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
| Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead
to Donne
, Jenny Joseph
to W. S. Gilbert
, U. A. Fanthorpe
to Walt Whitman
, Wendy Cope
to A. E. Housman |
| Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | |
| Textual Production | Harriett Jay | By 10 November 1898 they had colllaborated on an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas
's play Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr as the romantic comedy Two Little Maids from School (its title adapted from a song in... |
Timeline
November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...
Writing climate item
November 1847
Alfred Tennyson
published The Princess: A Medley.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
98-101
25 March 1875: Trial by Jury, the first light opera by Sir...
Writing climate item
25 March 1875
Trial by Jury, the first light opera by Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
, opened on stage; it was published, with the score, in 1888.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
391
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened...
Building item
10 October 1881
The Savoy Theatre
in the Strand was opened to perform Gilbert
and Sullivan
operas.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
174-6
5 January 1884: Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan's...
Writing climate item
5 January 1884
Sir W. S. Gilbert
and Sir Arthur Sullivan
's Princess Ida has its first performance, at the Savoy Theatre
in London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
II: 1102
14 March 1885: The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert...
Writing climate item
14 March 1885
The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert
and Sullivan
, was first performed: its Japanese setting was topical, since Japan had first opened to trade with the world two years previously.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
III: 386
24 April 1889: The Garrick Theatre opened in Charing Cross...
Building item
24 April 1889
The Garrick Theatre
opened in Charing Cross Road, London.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
85
Texts
Mayhew, Henry, and Sir William Schwenck Gilbert. London Characters. Chatto and Windus, 1874.
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The Mikado. 1885.