Papers Presentations and Patter

Papers presented at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Gettysburg PA in June 2011. Edited and with an Introduction by Ralph MacPhail Jr.; Foreword by Rich Wiley. Contents include Components of Gilbert's Genius by Harry Benford; Was Gilbert a Little Liberal or a Little Conservative? by Ian Bradley; Gilbert's Girls by Elise Curran; The Humor of the Operas by John E. Dreslin; Cheerful Facts about Matters Mathematical by Thomas Drucker; Think British--Sing Yiddish! by Al Grand; 'H.M.S. Pinafore' in American Waters by William Hyder; The Principal Comic Roles by Sylvan H. Kesilman; The Reality of 'Iolanthe' by Daniel Kravetz; The Savoy Operas Viewed through an Aristotelian Lens by Shane K. Magargal; The Curious Case of 'Little Maid of Arcadee' by Marc Shepherd; The Writing and Composition of 'The Mountebanks' by J. Donald Smith; Gilbert & Sullivan's Influence on the American Musical by Andrew Vorder Bruegge; and Gender Parody in the Savoy Operas by Carolyn Williams.