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Stephan Seiler Language for The Mikado * The Mikado is an operetta. Operetta: A theatrical production that has many of the musical elements of opera but is lighter and more popular in subject and style and contains spoken dialogue. Also called light opera. Complexity/Simplicity of the language * The language that is sung in the Mikado is quite simplistic. Some of the words from the musical numbers are occasionally complex. This is mainly in the parts where Gilbert and Sullivan have to rhyme the lyrics. E.g. "So he decreed, in words succinct" In the 1880s, the word 'Succinct' is a word that either the highly educated would have known or the upper class. This is because it is quite a rare word; it is not said often in the English language. A more simplistic word would have been brief. * Another example is when Katisha sings her sad solo; she uses old English language, to compare her song...

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