BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS

Asimov, Isaac: Asimov's Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Doubleday, 1988
Baily, Leslie: Gilbert and Sullivan; their lives and times. Viking Press, 1973
Cellier, François & Bridgeman, Cunningham: Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte:
    Reminiscences of the Savoy and The Savoyards. London, 1927
Dark, Sidney and Grey, Rowland: W.S. Gilbert: His Life and Letters. George H. Doran Company, 1923
Eden, David: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Creative Conflict. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986
Ellis, James, ed.: The Bab Ballads by W.S. Gilbert. Harvard Univ. Press, 1970
Gilbert, William S.: An Autobiography 1883
    The Story of the Mikado. A.A. Knopf, 1924
Jones, John Bush ed.: W.S. Gilbert: A Century of Scholarship and Commentary. NY Univ. Press, 1970
Pearson, Hesketh: Gilbert: His Life and Strife. Harper & Brothers, 1957
Perry, Henry Ten Eyck: The Victorianism of W.S. Gilbert (1928)
Smith, Geoffrey The Savoy Operas. Universe Books, 1985
Sullivan, H. & Flower, N.: Sir Arthur Sullivan: His Life, Letters & Diaries. George H. Doran Company, 1927
Williamson, Audrey: Gilbert & Sullivan Opera: A New Assessment. Rockliff, 1953

Note: The definitive web site devoted to Gilbert and Sulllivan, The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, may be found at: http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/index.html It contains Jesse Bond's book.

The movie Topsy-Turvy is available on DVD and VHS, but it is only sold to those over 18. The first part is rather long and confusing, but the parts which show the writing and staging of The Mikado are very well done and historically accurate.