Modified Rapture: Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas

by Alan Fischler

The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune that his less prosperous playwriting predecessors could scarcely have imagined. The Savoy operas-so called after the theater at which most of them were originally produced-were comedies. But comedy, in its traditional form, was hardly congenial to the prevailing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813913349
• ISBN13: 9780813913346
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher