Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. S.
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Cabinet card of W. S. Gilbert in about 1880 by Elliott & Fry
One of Gilbert's illustrations for his Bab Ballad "Gentle Alice Brown"
Gilbert and his wife, Lucy, in 1867
Hush-a-Bye Baby, On the Tree Top - an 1866 pantomime by Gilbert and Charles Millward
Poster for Ages Ago, 1870
Scene from The Happy Land, The Illustrated London News, 22 March 1873, illustrated by D. H. Friston
"The Ironmaster at the Savoy" (1884): Gilbert with the mallet of discipline; Carte reacts.
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About this person
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the 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 are still frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond.
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