Author: William S. Gilbert

Price: $18.12

Category:Literature & Fiction
Publication Date:1986-11-01T00:00:01Z
Pages:212
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0793534798
ISBN:13:9780793534791
"25 years previous to the action of the opera, Iolanthe, a fairy, had committed the capital crime of marrying a mortal. The Queen of the Fairies had commuted the death sentence to banishment for life--on condition that Iolanthe must leave her husband without explanation and never see him again. Her son, Strephon has grown up as a shepherd, half fairy, half mortal ... the entire House of Lords is enamored of Phyllis [as is Strephon. The opera focuses on the drama of the privledge to marry Phyllis ...]"--Argument