Iolanthe
Americannoun
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Survivors include two children, Iolanthe Woulff and Joseph Wouk; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2019
This Iolanthe is altogether more successful, full of imaginative direction, inventive ideas and moments of truly affecting pathos.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
Iolanthe has been banished to the bottom of a lake for marrying a mortal, but not before she gave birth to a son, Strephon, who is in love with Phyllis, a ward in Chancery.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
The series — including The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore, Ruddigore, Patience, The Yeoman of the Guard— is alone in its class, among the supreme achievements of English humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Iolanthe was the life and soul of Fairyland.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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