When ‘Law’ Rhymes with ‘Flaw’: the Sounds of British Justice in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (1875)

Gilbert and Sullivan’s second operatic collaboration, Trial by Jury (1875) is often discarded as a ‘minor’ work, compared to their later, better-known operas such as The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1885) or The Gondoliers (1889). Yet I would argue that as early as the mid-1870s, the comp...

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Main Author: Joël Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2021-01-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/9845