With regret I must admit defeat. I don't have time to update Babliophile at the moment. There are many reasons for this, which I won't mention here, but I do want to emphasise there's lots of good stuff to investigate here..... Scroll down for contents.
Here's one reason for my present lack of spare time, however: I'm preparing to write a biography of Gilbert. It's in the very early stages as yet (I've just got WSG safely born) but I'm getting there.
This version of the website is pared down to its barest essentials. Here are two items of information which I want to draw to your attention:
You can click on the blue bit to read more about each statement. And now: the rest of the website.
Strictly FactualGilbert reference:
List of Gilbert's
Plays Pieces by Gilbert:
"Sketches in Court"
(1) and "Sketches
in Court" (2) (cartoons) |
Personal OpinionReviews: Jane Stedman's W.S. Gilbert: A
Classic Victorian and his Theatre Pontifical:
We Are Going to Abolish
it in England: Gilbert Today and Tomorrow (text of a paper presented at the
Buxton G&S Festival, 1999) |
This is a strictly non-commercial website. Here you will find no promotional banners for dotcom businesses, shady-sounding banks, scams, medical breakthroughs, or the leisure activities of ladies of independent means. However, purely as a matter of interest, I may mention that I am the author of Contradiction Contradicted: The Plays of W.S. Gilbert (click on image left for more details) and the editor of Gilbertiana: Selections from the Works of W.S. Gilbert (click on image right to achieve the same effect). What you do with this information is your affair.
My thanks are also due to John McDonnell for drawing my attention to his web transcription of the Victorian book London Characters (1871), which includes several articles by Gilbert with Bab illustrations. One of these is "Getting Up a Pantomime", which is also available on this site, but there are four others which will repay inspection: "Thumbnail Studies in the London Streets", Parts 1 and 2; "Sitting At a Play"; and "The Thumbnail Sketcher in a Cab". These articles originally appeared in the magazine London Society in 1867-8.
It is possible, though not, I admit, probable, that you have reached this page without becoming aware of any of the other Websites about Gilbert and Sullivan that are lying about the place. Here, therefore, are some of the more vital links.
AN
ESSENTIAL LINK: The
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. This is the internet resource on
Gilbert and Sullivan. The page entitled
Other
Stage Works by W.S. Gilbert will give you access to the texts of all the
G&S operas and many of Gilbert's "other" plays. The texts of the
Bab
Ballads may be accessed also.
Marc Shepherd's Gilbert and Sullivan Discography Home Page is an invaluable site detailing recordings of the works of Gilbert and/or Sullivan.
Another thing worth seeking out is Savoynet, described as "an unmoderated electronic mailing list dedicated to discussion of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan". Here you may find G&S enthusiasts of all types maintaining, with no little heat, their various opinions: a very lively, informative, and friendly discussion group.
Grim's Dyke Hotel also has a website: Grim's Dyke was Gilbert's home from 1890 to his death in 1911.
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