Iolanthe
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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
‘A perfect antidote to these austere times’: Shaun McCourt, left, as the Lord Chancellor and Christopher Finn as Iolanthe at Wilton’s Music Hall.
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
Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or between his studies of the engaging and more than candid Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" and that pretentious humbug Bunthorne in "Patience"?
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
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