Gilbert and Sullivan and institutions more freely by clothing them in superficial Japanese trappings. Gilbert wrote, "The Mikado of the opera was an imaginary monarch of a remote period and cannot by any exercise of ingenuity be taken to be a slap on an existing institution." G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels": "Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did... I doubt if there is a single joke in the whole play that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes in the play fit
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City "Daily Mail". Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City is a 2012 book by British author, academic and journalist, Catharine Arnold. The book is a 'colourful, gruesome' history of crime and punishment in London. The book also examines the influence of the 'criminal classes in on literature' and examines the Soho gangs of the 1950s and 60's. In the "Daily Telegraph" Lilian Pizzichini described the book as 'a chronological account of theft, murder and riot, and the concurrent methods of restraining the population in the capital' and noted that