Gilbert, William Schwenck, — The Mikado.

NY, Dover, (1992). G PB ex-library. Standard performance text of The Mikado first produced in 1885, author's illustrations are taken The Bab ballads, 2nd ed. A lighthearted burlesque of Victorian English culture & the vagaries of love, set in a fanciful & wholly imaginary Japanese society, one of the most widely admired of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. The tale of a wandering minstrel whose misfortune it is to fall in love with the beautiful ward of the Lord High Executioner of Titipu.