Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

Standard Name: Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
Used Form: Arthur Sullivan

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Barbara Pym
BP 's sister calls their childhood happy, unclouded.
Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
2
Their family lived in comfortable circumstances, and their main childhood home was a substantial house with a large garden. They had servants, and kept a...
Friends, Associates Eliza Ogilvy
Over the years EO developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster , Henry Chorley ,...
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 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
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...
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...
Publishing Sarah Flower Adams
Nearer, My God, to Thee, written when SFA was only twenty-one, has often been misattributed to Harriet Beecher Stowe .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Apparently the hymn was inspired by Adams' friend Robert Browning 's early religious doubts...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...
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...
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
ES published in The London Mercury an article entitled Delirious Tempi in Music, arguing that conductors were taking Gilbert and Sullivan too fast.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 122n2

Timeline

13 May 1842: Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was...

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13 May 1842

Composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born at 8 Bolwell Terrace, Lambeth Walk, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

22 November 1900: Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer, died...

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22 November 1900

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan , composer, died at 1 Queen's Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

13 March 1951: The ballet Pineapple Poll, choreographed...

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13 March 1951

The ballet Pineapple Poll, choreographed by John Cranko with music by Sullivan and Mackerras , was performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre , London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
404

Texts

Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. The Mikado. 1885.