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
