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Theatre in the Victorian era is regarded as history of theatre in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. It was a time during which literature and theatre flourished. During this era, many new theatres and theatre schools were built, and political reforms came into practice which led to the openness of theatre ...
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are ...
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856. Terry was born in Coventry, England, the third surviving child born into a theatrical family. [2] Her parents, Benjamin (1818–1896), of Irish descent, and Sarah (née Ballard; 1819–1892), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a Portsmouth-based touring company, [3] [4] (where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister) and ...
Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later those by other ...
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
The Happy Land [written as F. Tomline, with Gilbert à Beckett] Two-Act Burlesque of The Wicked World Court 1873-03-03 The Realm of Joy [written as F. Latour Tomline: freely adapted from Le Roi Candaule by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy; title changed after a few nights to The Realms of Joy] One-Act Farce Royalty 1873-10-18
Henry Taylor was born on 18 October 1800 in Bishop Middleham. He was the third son of George Taylor Sr and Eleanor Ashworth, who died when he was an infant. [1] His father remarried Jane Mills in 1818, and the family then moved to Witton-le-Wear. [2] George Taylor Sr's friend Charles Arbuthnot found vocational positions in London for Henry ...
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino ...