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Gilbert and Sullivan Works
THESPIS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
TRIAL BY JURY
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
TRIAL BY JURY
THE SORCERER
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I.
ACT II
H.M.S. PINAFORE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
PATIENCE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
IOLANTHE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
PRINCESS IDA
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I.
ACT II
ACT III
THE MIKADO
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ACT I.
ACT II.
RUDDYGORE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
THE GONDOLIERS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
UTOPIA, LIMITED
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I.
ACT II
THE GRAND DUKE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ACT I.
ACT II.
Gilbert’s Other Dramatic Works
RUY BLAS
CONTENTS
ARGUMENT
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
SCENE I
SCENE II.
SCENE III
SCENE THE LAST.
DULCAMARA
CONTENTS
LA VIVANDIÈRE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Scene V.
ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN
A COLOSSAL IDEA
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
A COLOSSAL IDEA
HARLEQUIN COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN
CONTENTS
SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND EVENTS.
SCENE I. - MIASMA’S MARSH.
SCENE II. - FLORAL HOME OF THE SPIRIT OF FRESH AIR.
SCENE III. - A FOREST.
SCENE IV. - HOME OF THE THREE BEARS.
SCENE V. - HOME OF GAFFER AND GAMMER GRAY.
SCENE VI. - THE FAIRY AQUARIUM.
SCENE VII. - THE ENCHANTED WOOD.
SCENE VIII. - THE ISLAND OF TOYS.
SCENE IX. - THE FOUNTAIN OF UNCEASING LIFE.
SCENE X. - THE FOREST.
SCENE X. - COURT-YARD IN LITTLE MAID’S CASTLE.
SCENE XI. - THE BEARS’ GROWLERY.
THE MERRY ZINGARA
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Scene V.
Finale.
ROBERT THE DEVIL
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Scene I.
Scene II. - Apartment in Princess Isabella’s palace
Scene III. - The Chambers of Horrors as it is.
Scene the Last. - Bertram’s Palace.
NO CARDS
A MUSICAL PIECE IN ONE ACT FOR FOUR CHARACTERS
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
NO CARDS
THE PRETTY DRUIDESS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Scene I.
Scene II. - Norma’s Home.
Scene III.
AGES AGO
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
AGES AGO
A MEDICAL MAN
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
A MEDICAL MAN.
THE PRINCESS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
SCENE FIRST. - Court in King Hildebrand’s Palace.
SCENE SECOND. - The Gates of Castle Adamant.
SCENE THIRD. - Grounds of Castle Adamant;
SCENE FOURTH. - Hildebrand’s Camp before Ida’s Castle.
SCENE FIFTH. - Inner Gate of Castle Adamant.
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK
CONTENTS
CAST.
ACT I.
ACT II.
OUR ISLAND HOME
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
OUR ISLAND HOME
THE PALACE OF TRUTH
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I.
ACT II
ACT III.
THE BRIGANDS
CONTENTS
THE CAST.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III
RANDALL’S THUMB
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
A SENSATION NOVEL
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
VOL. 1
VOL. 2
VOL. 3
CREATURES OF IMPULSE
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
CREATURES OF IMPULSE
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHARACTERS IN DRAMA.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
SCENE 1ST.
SCENE 2ND.
ON GUARD
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
PYGMALION AND GALATEA
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
HAPPY ARCADIA
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
HAPPY ARCADIA
THE WICKED WORLD
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
THE HAPPY LAND
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
PART FIRST.
PART SECOND.
THE WEDDING MARCH
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS.
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
CHARITY
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
TOPSYTURVEYDOM
CONTENTS
CAST.
SCENE 1
SCENE 2
SWEETHEARTS
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN
TOM COBB
CONTENTS
THE CAST.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
EYES AND NO EYES; OR, THE ART OF SEEING
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
EYES AND NO EYES
BROKEN HEARTS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ACT I
ACT II.
ACT III.
PRINCESS TOTO
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
PRELUDE.
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
DAN’L DRUCE, BLACKSMITH
CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ON BAIL
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ENGAGED
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
THE NE’ER-DO-WEEL
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
GRETCHEN
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III.
ACT IV.
FOGGERTY’S FAIRY
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
BRANTINGHAME HALL
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
THE MOUNTEBANKS
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT ONE.
ACT TWO.
HIS EXCELLENCY
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT ONE.
ACT TWO.
THE FORTUNE HUNTER
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
ACT I. - Woo’d.
ACT II. - Wedded.
ACT III. - Widowed.
HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY’S DILEMMA
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
THE HOOLIGAN
TRYING A DRAMATIST
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
TRYING A DRAMATIST
Gilbert’s Short Fiction
FOGGERTY’S FAIRY AND OTHER TALES
CONTENTS
NOTE.
FOGGERTY’S FAIRY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
AN ELIXIR OF LOVE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
JOHNNY POUNCE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
LITTLE MIM.
THE TRIUMPH OF VICE.
MY MAIDEN BRIEF.
CREATURES OF IMPULSE.
MAXWELL AND I.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
ACTORS, AUTHORS, AND AUDIENCES.
ANGELA.
WIDE AWAKE.
A STAGE PLAY.
THE WICKED WORLD.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
THE FINGER OF FATE.
A TALE OF A DRY PLATE.
THE BURGLAR’S STORY.
UNAPPRECIATED SHAKESPEARE.
COMEDY AND TRAGEDY.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN.
THE STORY OF H.M.S. PINAFORE
CONTENTS
TO MY YOUNG READERS
CHAPTER 1.
CHAPTER 2.
CHAPTER 3.
CHAPTER 4.
Gilbert’s Poetry Collections
THE BAB BALLADS
CONTENTS
Preface.
Captain Reece
The Rival Curates
Only A Dancing Girl
General John
To A Little Maid - By A Policeman
John And Freddy
Sir Guy The Crusader
Haunted
The Bishop And The ‘Busman
The Troubadour
Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman
Lorenzo De Lardy
Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast
Babette’s Love
To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)
The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent
Sir Macklin
The Yarn Of The “Nancy Bell”
The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo
The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale
To Phoebe
Baines Carew, Gentleman
Thomas Winterbottom Hance
The Reverend Micah Sowls
A Discontented Sugar Broker
The Pantomime “Super” To His Mask
The Force Of Argument
The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin
The Phantom Curate. A Fable
The Sensation Captain
Tempora Mutantur
At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One
King Borria Bungalee Boo
The Periwinkle Girl
Thomson Green And Harriet Hale
Bob Polter
The Story Of Prince Agib
Ellen McJones Aberdeen
Peter The Wag
Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum
The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo
Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord’s Daughter
To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch
Gentle Alice Brown
MORE BAB BALLADS
CONTENTS
Mister William
The Bumboat Woman’s Story
The Two Ogres
Little Oliver
Pasha Bailey Ben
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare
Lost Mr. Blake
The Baby’s Vengeance
The Captain And The Mermaids
Annie Protheroe. A Legend of Stratford-Le-Bow
An Unfortunate Likeness
Gregory Parable, LL.D.
The King Of Canoodle-Dum
First Love
Brave Alum Bey
Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo
The Modest Couple
The Martinet
The Sailor Boy To His Lass
The Reverend Simon Magus
Damon v. Pythias
My Dream
The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo Again
A Worm Will Turn
The Haughty Actor
The Two Majors
Emily, John, James, And I. A Derby Legend
The Perils Of Invisibility
Old Paul And Old Tim
The Mystic Selvagee
The Cunning Woman
Phrenology
The Fairy Curate
The Way Of Wooing
Hongree And Mahry. A Recollection Of A Surrey Melodrama
Etiquette
SONGS OF A SAVOYARD
CONTENTS
The Darned Mounseer
The Englishman
The Disagreeable Man
The Coming By-And-By
The Highly Respectable Gondolier
The Fairy Queen’s Song
Is Life A Boon
The Modern Major-General
The Heavy Dragoon
Proper Pride
The Policeman’s Lot
The Baffled Grumbler
The House Of Peers
A Merry Madrigal
The Duke And The Duchess
Eheu Fugaces -!
They’ll None Of ’Em Be Missed
Girl Graduates
Braid The Raven Hair
The Working Monarch
The Ape And The Lady
Only Roses
The Rover’s Apology
An Appeal
The Reward Of Merit
The Magnet And The Churn
The Family Fool
Sans Souci
A Recipe
The Merryman And His Maid
The Susceptible Chancellor
When A Merry Maiden Marries
The British Tar
A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
The Sorcerer’s Song
The Fickle Breeze
The First Lord’s Song
Would You Know?
Speculation
Ah Me!
The Duke Of Plaza-Toro
The Aesthete
Said I To Myself, Said I
Sorry Her Lot
The Contemplative Sentry
The Philosophic Pill
Blue Blood
The Judge’s Song
When I First Put This Uniform On
Solatium
A Nightmare
Don’t Forget!
The Suicide’s Grave
He And She
The Mighty Must
A Mirage
The Ghosts’ High Noon
The Humane Mikado
Willow Waly!
Life Is Lovely All The Year
The Usher’s Charge
The Great Oak Tree
King Goodheart
Sleep On!
The Love-Sick Boy
Poetry Everywhere
He Loves!
True Diffidence
The Tangled Skein
My Lady
One Against The World
Put A Penny In The Slot
Good Little Girls
Life
Limited Liability
Anglicised Utopia
An English Girl
A Manager’s Perplexities
Out Of Sorts
How It’s Done
A Classical Revival
The Practical Joker
The National Anthem
Her Terms
The Independent Bee
The Disconcerted Tenor
The Played-Out Humorist
MISCELLANEOUS BAB BALLADS
CONTENTS
The Advent of Spring
The Cattle Show
Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four
The Dream
The Baron Klopfzetterheim
Down to the Derby
Something Like Nonsense Verses
Ode to my Clothes
The Student
The Bachelors’ Strike
A Bad Night Of It
Ozone
The Monkey in Trouble
Back Again!
To My Absent Husband
My Return
Musings in a Music Hall
Pantomimic Presentiments
The Bar and its Moaning
To Euphrosyne
Monsieur le Blond on London
The Reverend Rawston Wright
The Story of Gentle Archibald
To My Steed
Jack Casts His Shell
How to Write an Irish Drama
Sir Galahad the Golumptious
Fanny and Jenny
A. and B.
Sea-Side Snobs
Trial by Jury
Blabworth-cum-Talkington
Sir Conrad and the Rusty One
The “Bandoline” Player
Boulogne
The Hermit
A Boulogne Table d’Hôte
The Railway Guard’s Song
The Undecided Man
Premonitory Symptoms
What Is A Burlesque?
The Phantom Head
The Politest of Nations!
Woman’s Gratitude
The Three Bohemian Ones
The Policeman’s Beard
The Ghost to his Ladye Love
Prince Il Baleine
The Scornful Colonel
The Variable Baby
The Ladies of the Lea
The Wise Policeman
A Drop of Pantomime Water
Eheu! Fugaces
Jester James
The Policeman’s Story
The Thief’s Apology
The King and the Stroller
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Biographies
W. S. GILBERT by Louis Engel
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN by Louis Engel
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN by George Grossmith
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERA: A HISTORY AND COMMENT by H. M. Walbrook
CONTENTS
FOREWORD.
CHAPTER I. THE HOUR AND THE MEN.
CHAPTER II. A TOOLE AND NELLY FARREN OPERA.
CHAPTER III. W. S. PENLEY’S DÉBUT.
CHAPTER IV. GEORGE GROSSMITH’S FIRST PART.
CHAPTER V. THE ADVENTURES OF “H.M.S. PINAFORE.
CHAPTER VI. SOME ANCESTORS AND AN ESCUTCHEON.
CHAPTER VII. BUNTHORNE’s BRIDE.
CHAPTER VIII. A MERRY LORD CHANCELLOR.
CHAPTER IX. A STRING OF PEARLS.
CHAPTER X. THE JAPANESE OPERA.
CHAPTER XI. “RUDDYGORE” AND “RUDDIGORE.”
CHAPTER XII. I HAVE A SONG TO SING, OH!
CHAPTER XIII. THE DUCAL PALACE AND BARATARIA.
CHAPTER XIV. QUEEN VICTORIA AND “THE GONDOLIERS.”
CHAPTER XV. “UTOPIA, LIMITED.”
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST OF THE OPERAS.
CHAPTER XVII. THE BRAIN AND THE HEART.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ENGLISH OFFENBACH.
CHAPTER XIX. W. S. GILBERT AS A “PRODUCER.”.
CHAPTER XX. EPILOGUE.
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