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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781913724429
Paperback • 128pp • £7.99
129 mm x 198 mm
23/08/21
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Engaged

W.S. Gilbert

With an introduction and notes by Andrew Crowther, secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society

ISBN: 9781913724429
Paperback • 128pp
Published 23 August 2021

£7.99

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Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s most popular stage work after the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, is a farcical comedy that has long lived in the literary shadows – although wildly neglected today, the play influenced literary names as great as George Bernard Shaw, and directly inspired Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

Centring on a rich young man’s search for a wife and his uncle and best friend’s attempts to hinder him, the play toys with conventional notions of love and sincerity. In this edition, which also contains notes and an essay by the undisputed authority on W.S. Gilbert, Andrew Crowther, Engaged deserves to step out into the spotlight once more.

About the author

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) was a dramatist, poet, author, illustrator and librettist, best known today for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan.

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