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| http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract | Topsyturveydom (sometimes spelled Topsytur … Topsyturveydom (sometimes spelled Topsyturvydom or Topseyturveydom) is a one-act operetta by W. S. Gilbert with music by Alfred Cellier. Styled "an entirely original musical extravaganza", it is based on one of Gilbert's Bab Ballads, "My Dream". It opened on 21 March 1874 at the Criterion Theatre in London and ran until 17 April, for about 25 performances. This was the first work shown at the newly built Criterion, and it was played together with An American Lady, written and performed by Gilbert's friend, the dramatist and Fun magazine founder, Henry J. Byron. The musical score to Topsyturveydom does not survive, but amateur productions in recent decades have used newly composed scores or performed the work as a non-musical play. Advertisements for the work spelled the title "Topsyturveydom", whereas the license copy of the libretto, filed with the Lord Chamberlain's office, and now held in the British Library, spells it "Topsyturvydom". Topsyturveydom is set in a quasi-utopia (reminiscent of Gilbert's earlier Happy Arcadia (1872), or even Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels), where things are the opposite of the norm. Party politics is lampooned, much as it would be two decades later in Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited. As in that work, the king is a "detested" monarch. Gilbert also renews the idea of party politics working in a backwards way in Iolanthe, where the House of Lords is threatened with obsolescence by having its members selected by competitive examination.mbers selected by competitive examination. |
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| http://dbpedia.org/property/quote | Where right is wrong and wrong is right— , I woke and found myself in bed. Still I could wish that, 'stead of here, , However can you get along , With views , To other sages' lullabies. Our magistrates, in duty bound, , They crow binomial theorem, , And not a passenger may sail , Is always shot for showing pluck— , His mind with true ideas of crime, , Who practice virtue every day— , And glean the motives of a thief , This seems an awkward state of things, , But there the beaks , "Have you no eyes within your head? , The wisdom we so highly prise , I framed this brilliant repartee: Although your babes are wiser far , Is wisdom in that favoured sphere; , And sages close their aged eyes , And Art at all their fingertips. For, as their nurses dandle them, , Why, we begin where you leave off! "Your wisest men are very far , His wisdom teeth and wisdom too. Historians burn their midnight oils, , I ought to do extremely well. , Gilbert's Bab Ballads, quoted below.'' The other night, from cares exempt, , From books and popular belief. But there, a judge who wants to prime , My lot were in that favoured sphere!— , You sneer when you your hat should doff: , Per contra, women all are men. To one who to tradition clings , Came just a little bit too late; , A sailor should be sick at sea, , Derives them from the common sense , Where nice is nasty—nasty, nice: , To dwell in Topsy-Turveydom!— Where vice is virtue—virtue, vice: , What we call virtue here below. For only scoundrels dare to do , Know crime from theory alone, , Must learn some nonsense every day; , Than our most valued sages are, , Are duller than our idiots!" But this remark, I grieve to state, , Of practical experience. Policemen march all folks away , With every Science on their lips, , Who cannot smoke right through a gale. A soldier , Is blatant folly in their eyes. A boy, if he would push his way, , With pluck enough to fire a round. "How strange," I said to one I saw, , And cut, to carry out this view, , Commit all robbers who are found; , He must forget it, if he can, , Commit all robberies instead. Our judges, pure and wise in tone, , "You quite upset our every law. , That is, if others can be found , But if to think it out you try, , The girls are boys—the boys are girls! , And only good men do, in fact, , Is born with learning in his head, , Your sages, with their toys and cots, , Of course, I m—ean to say, you know, , I muse awhile—and then, oh me! , So systematically wrong?" "Dear me," my mad informant said, , Where white is black and black is white. Where babies, much to their surprise, , I dreamt that somehow I had come , ''Like many of Gilbert's plays, , Intent on giant-killers' toils; , Topsyturveydom is based on one of , What we consider just and true, , Less learned than our babies are!" , The men are women, too—but then , Where greatest fools bear off the bell , I slept—and what d'you think I dreamt? , For as I framed it in my head, , Are born astonishingly wise; , Before he calls himself a man. For that which we call folly here, , On differential calculus. But though a babe, as I have said, , What we should think a dirty act. But strangest of these social twirls, , It doesn't really signify. With them, as surely as can be, |
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| rdfs:comment | Topsyturveydom (sometimes spelled Topsytur … Topsyturveydom (sometimes spelled Topsyturvydom or Topseyturveydom) is a one-act operetta by W. S. Gilbert with music by Alfred Cellier. Styled "an entirely original musical extravaganza", it is based on one of Gilbert's Bab Ballads, "My Dream". It opened on 21 March 1874 at the Criterion Theatre in London and ran until 17 April, for about 25 performances. This was the first work shown at the newly built Criterion, and it was played together with An American Lady, written and performed by Gilbert's friend, the dramatist and Fun magazine founder, Henry J. Byron. The musical score to Topsyturveydom does not survive, but amateur productions in recent decades have used newly composed scores or performed the work as a non-musical play. performed the work as a non-musical play. |
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