Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Standard Name: Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Used Form: Sir W. S. Gilbert
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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 | |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Florence Marryat | A woman of varied accomplishments, Swan, Annie S. The Woman at Home. Warwick Magazine Company. 5 (1897): 191 |
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 |
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, p. various pages. 2 |
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, p. various pages. 2-3 |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | The book is an imitation of one that was very popular: The "Bab" Ballads, 1869, by Sir William Gilbert
(of Gilbert and Sullivan fame). “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Timeline
November 1847: Alfred Tennyson published The Princess: A...
Writing climate item
November 1847
Alfred Tennyson
published The Princess: A Medley.
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.
10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened...
Building item
10 October 1881
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.
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.
24 April 1889: The Garrick Theatre opened in Charing Cross...
Building item
24 April 1889
The Garrick Theatre
opened in Charing Cross Road, London.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.