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William Schwenck Gilbert
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English dramatist, librettist and illustrator, best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan

10391Q348513William Schwenck GilbertWilliam SchwenckGilbertW. S. GilbertEnglish dramatist, librettist and illustrator, best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan

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• Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales (1890)

• Original Plays (1876)

• Thespis (1871)
• Trial by Jury (1875)
• The Sorcerer (1877)
• H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
• The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
• Patience (1881)
• Iolanthe (1883)
• Princess Ida (1884)
• The Mikado (1885)
• Ruddigore (1887)
• The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
• The Gondoliers (1889)
• Utopia, Limited (1893)
• The Grand Duke (1896)

• The Gentleman in Black (1870)
• Les Brigands (1871)
• Topsyturveydom (1874)
• Princess Toto (1876)
• The Mountebanks (1892)
• Haste to the Wedding (1892)
• His Excellency (1894)
• Fallen Fairies (1909)

• No Cards (1869)
• Ages Ago (1869)
• Our Island Home (1870)
• A Sensation Novel (1871)
• Happy Arcadia (1872)
• Eyes and No Eyes (1875)

• Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack (1866)
• La Vivandière (1867)
• Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren (1867)
• The Merry Zingara (1868)
• Robert the Devil (1868)
• The Pretty Druidess (1869)
• An Old Score (1869)
• The Princess (1870)
• The Palace of Truth (1870)
• Creatures of Impulse (1871)
• Pygmalion and Galatea (Gilbert) (1871)
• Randall's Thumb (1871)
• The Wicked World (1873)
• The Happy Land (1873)
• The Realm of Joy (1873)
• The Wedding March (1873)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (published 1874, performed 1891)
• Charity (1874)
• Sweethearts (1874)
• Tom Cobb (1875)
• Broken Hearts (1875)
• Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876)
• Engaged (1877)
• The Ne'er-do-Weel (1878)
• The Forty Thieves (1878)
• Gretchen (1879)
• Foggerty's Fairy (1881)
• Brantinghame Hall (1888)
• The Fortune Hunter (1897)
• The Fairy's Dilemma (1904)
• The Hooligan (1911)

• The 'Bab' Ballads (1868)
• More 'Bab' Ballads (1872)
• Fifty 'Bab' Ballads (1876)
• Songs of a Savoyard (1890)

• The Advent of Spring (1862)
• The Cattle Show (1863)
• Down to the Derby (1864)
• The Dream (1864)
• The Baron Klopfzetterheim (1864)
• Sixty-three and Sixty-four (1864)
• Ode to My Clothes (1865)
• Something Like Nonsense Verses (1865)
• The Student (1865)
• Tempora Mutantur (1865)
• The Bachelor's Strike (1865)
• A Bad Night of It (1865)
• To Phœbe (1865)
• Ozone (1865)
• To the Terrestrial Globe (1865)
• The Monkey in Trouble (1865)
• Back Again! (1865)
• To My Absent Husband (1865)
• The Return (1865)
• Musings in a Music Hall (1865)
• Pantomime Presentiments (1865)
• The Bar and Its Meaning (1865)
• To Euphrosyne (1865)
• The Phantom Curate (1866)
• To a Little Maid (1866)
• Ferdinando and Elvira (1866)
• The Pantomime "Super" to His Mask (1866)
• Monsieur Le Blond on London (1866)
• The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" (1866)
• Haunted (1866)
• The Reverend Rawson Wright (1866
• The Story of Gentle Archibald (1866)
• To My Bride (1866)
• Only a Dancing Girl (1866)
• To My Steed (1866)
• King Borria Bungalee Boo (1866)
• Jack Casts His Shell (1866)
• How to Write an Irish Drama (1866)
• General John (1867)
• Sir Guy the Crusader (1867)
• Sir Galahad the Golumptious (1867)
• Disillusioned (1867)
• John and Freddy (1867)
• Lorenzo de Lardy (1867)
• The Bishop and the Busman (1867)
• Babette's Love (1867)
• Fanny and Jenny (1867)
• Sir Macklin (1867)
• The Troubadour (1867)
• Ben Allah Achmet (1867)
• The Folly of Brown (1867)
• Joe Golightly (1867)
• The Rival Curates (1867)
• Thomas Winterbottom Hance (1867)
• A. and B.; or, The Sensation Twins (1867)
• Sea-Side Snobs (1867)
• The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo (1867)
• The Precocious Baby (1867)
• Baines Carew, Gentleman (1867)
• A Discontented Sugar Broker (1867)
• The Force of Argument (1867)
• At a Pantomime (1867)
• What is a Burlesque? (1868)
• The Railway Guard's Song (1868)
• A Boulogne Table d'Hôte (1868)
• The Undecided Man (1868)
• The Three Kings of Chickeraboo (1868)
• The Periwinkle Girl (1868)
• Captain Reece (1868)
• Thomson Green and Harriet Hale (1868)
• Bob Polter (1868)
• The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin (1868)
• Ellen McJones Aberdeen (1868)
• The Sensation Captain (1868)
• The Reverend Micah Sowls (1868)
• Trial by Jury (1868)
• Peter the Wag (1868)
• The Story of Prince Agib (1868)
• Gentle Alice Brown (1868)
• Pasha Bailey Ben (1868)
• Blabworth-com-Talkington (1868)
• Sailor Boy to His Lass, The (1868)
• Sir Conrad and the Rusty One (1868)
• The Cunning Woman (1868)
• The Modest Couple (1868)
• The Bandoline Player (1868)
• Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo (1868)
• Boulogne (1868)
• Brave Alum Bey (1868)
• Gregory Parable, LL.D. (1868)
• The Hermit (1868)
• Lieutenant Colonel Flare (1868)
• Annie Protheroe (1868)
• The Captain and the Mermaids (1868)
• Lost Mr. Blake (1868)
• Premonitory Symptoms (1868)
• Little Oliver (1868)
• An Unfortunate Likeness (1868)
• The Phantom Head (1868)
• The Politest of Nations! (1869)
• Woman's Gratitude (1869)
• The Baby's Vengeance (1869)
• The Two Ogres (1869)
• Mister William (1869)
• The Martinet (1869)
• The King of Canoodle-Dum (1869)
• First Love (1869)
• The Haughty Actor (1869)
• The Two Majors (1869)
• The Three Bohemian Ones (1869)
• The Policeman's Beard (1869)
• The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo Again (1869)
• A Worm Will Turn (1869)
• The Mystic Selvagee (1869)
• Emily, John, James, and I (1869)
• Ghost to His Ladye Love (1869)
• Prince Il Baleine (1869)
• Way of Wooing, The (1869)
• The Scornful Colonel (1869)
• The Variable Baby (1869)
• The Ladies of the Lea (1869)
• Hongree and Mahry (1869)
• Etiquette (1869)
• The Reverend Simon Magus (1870)
• My Dream (1870)
• Damon v. Pythias (1870)
• The Bumboat Woman's Story (1870)
• The Fairy Curate (1870)
• Phrenology (1870)
• The Perils of Invisibility (1870)
• The Wise Policeman (1870)
• A Drop of Pantomime Water (1870)
• Old Paul and Old Tim (1871)
• Eheu! Fugaces (1873)
• Jester James (1879)
• The Policeman's Story (1879)
• The Thief's Apology (1884)
• The King and the Stroller (1905)

• The Pinafore Picture Book (1908)

• "Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk," by Thomas Seccombe in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Gilbert, William Schwenck," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• "Gilbert, William Schwenck," in Men-at-the-Bar (v. 2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Illustrated Interviews No. IV.—Mr. W. S. Gilbert", in The Strand Magazine, October 1891.