Deputy Lieutenants of Middlesex - W. S. Gilbert, Edwin Flavell, Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, Henry Ferryman Bowles, Horace Farquhar (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: W. S. Gilbert, Edwin Flavell, Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, Henry Ferryman Bowles, Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar, Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet, Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan, George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, William Bodkin, George Byng, William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, Irwin Cox, Hans Busk, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Frederick William Cadogan, Algernon Greville, Sir William Prescott, 1st Baronet, Philip Rose, John Cliff, Herbert Nield, Thomas Allen. Excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 - 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous 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. These, as well as most of their other Savoy operas, continue to be performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups. Lines from these works have become part of the English language, such as "short, sharp shock," "What, never? Well, hardly ever ," and "Let the punishment fit the crime." Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. According to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Gilbert's "lyrical facility and his mastery of metre raised ...