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Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!: The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan.(Book review)
Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan. By Ian Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. [xii, 220 p. ISBN 0-19-516700-7. $29.95.] Index, notes.
In this book, Ian Bradley, author of The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), reports on, and attempts to account for, the persistence of Gilbert and Sullivan. Why should such quintessentially Victorian theater still appeal to citizens of our bewildered and noisy postmodernist world? For "[d]espite being periodically written off as anachronisms by their detractors," he notes, "... [they] have not just survived but positively thrived into the ...
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