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This is a selected list of W. S. Gilbert's works, including all that have their own Wikipedia articles. For a complete list of Gilbert's dramatic works, see List of W. S. Gilbert dramatic works.

Poetry

• The Bab Ballads, a collection of comic verse published roughly between and
• Songs of a Savoyard, London: George Routledge and Sons, , a collection of Gilbert's song lyrics^[1]

Selected short stories

Publications that include one or more of Gilbert's short stories that are not in Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales

• Gilbert, W.

  S. (). Peter Haining (ed.).

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  The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert. London(?): Robson Books. ISBN&#;.

• Belgravia, vol. 2 (). “From St. Paul’s to Piccadilly,” pp.&#;67–74
• Fun, vol. 1 new series () (several contributions by Gilbert; near end of volume, Fun Christmas Number , with Gilbert’s “The Astounding Adventure of Wheeler J. Calamity,” pp.&#;17–18)
• London Society, vol.

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• On the Cards: Routledge’s Christmas Annual () (“Diamonds,” pp.&#;25–37, and “The Converted Clown,” pp.&#;–)

Other books

Plays and musical stage works

Selected stage works that were important to Gilbert's career or were otherwise notable, in chronological order, excluding those listed under other headings below:

• Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack ( musical spoof of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore).

  Gilbert's first solo success for the theatre, and the first of his five "operatic burlesques".

• La Vivandière (), a parody of Donizetti's La figlia del regimento
• Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren (), a Christmas pantomime.
• The Merry Zingara (), a parody of Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl
• Robert the Devil (), a parody of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable.

  One of Gilbert's most successful early plays, it opened the Gaiety Theatre, London and ran in the provinces for 3 years.

• The Pretty Druidess (), a parody of Norma – the last of Gilbert's five "operatic burlesques"
• An Old Score () (rewritten as "Quits!" in ) Gilbert's first full-length comedy.
• The Princess ().

  Musical farce; the precursor to Princess Ida.

• The Palace of Truth (). The first of Gilbert's blank verse "Fairy Comedies".
• Creatures of Impulse (), with music by Alberto Randegger, based on Gilbert's short story called "A Strange Old Lady".
• Pygmalion and Galatea (). Gilbert's most successful work up to this time.

  A reinterpretation of the Pygmalion myth in which the innocent former statue, Galatea, is unable to bear the cynicism and jealousies of the real world.

• Randall's Thumb (). A comedy that opened the Royal Court Theatre.
• The Wicked World (). A fairy comedy about how mortal love upsets the fairy world.
• The Happy Land ().

  This work was briefly banned for its sharp satire of government ministers.

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• The Realm of Joy (). Set in the box office of a thinly-disguised The Happy Land, it satirises the audience for scandalous plays and the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of plays.
• The Wedding March () a farce adapted from Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (published , performed ).

  Gilbert's burlesque of Hamlet.

• Charity (). Concerns Victorian attitudes towards sex outside of marriage. Anticipates the s "problem plays" of Shaw, Ibsen.
• Sweethearts (). A drama about love revisited after 30 years.
• Tom Cobb (). This was possibly one of Gilbert's best comedies.^[3]
• Broken Hearts ().

  The last of Gilbert's "fairy comedies", this was one of Gilbert's favourite plays.

• Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (). A three-act drama that introduced antecedents of some of Gilbert's later characters.
• Engaged (). Probably the most famous of Gilbert's non-Sullivan works for the theatre.
• The Ne'er-do-Weel (); rewritten as "The Vagabond" after a few weeks.

  Friendship, sacrifice and rotating lovers: it unsuccessfully combined sentimental scenes with comedy.

• The Forty Thieves (). An "amateur pantomime at the Gaiety," written with three other writers, in which WSG played Harlequin.
• Gretchen (). One of Gilbert's favorites – his take on the Faust legend.
• Foggerty's Fairy ().

  Gilbert's Back to the Future play.

• Brantinghame Hall (), a drama. Gilbert's biggest flop, it sent producer Rutland Barrington into bankruptcy.
• The Fortune Hunter (). Not a good play; its reception provoked WSG to announce retiring from writing for the stage.
• The Fairy's Dilemma ().

  WSG finally works out a lifelong obsession with pantomime and harlequinade.

• The Hooligan (). Gilbert's last play, written in a new, serious style.

German Reed Entertainments

Gilbert wrote six one-act musical entertainments for the German Reeds between and They were successful in their own right and also helped form Gilbert's mature style as a dramatist.^[4] These include:

Early comic operas

The Gilbert and Sullivan operas

All of these comic operas are full-length two-act works, except for Trial by Jury, which is in one act, and Princess Ida, which is three acts.

All except for Trial by Jury contain spoken dialogue; the dialogue in Princess Ida is written in blank verse.^[5]

Later operas without Sullivan

Though not as popular as the works with Arthur Sullivan, a few of Gilbert's later comic operas arguably have stronger plots than the last two Gilbert and Sullivan operas.^[6]

Parlour ballads

Gilbert is known to have written lyrics for twelve parlour ballads.^[7] These are:

• "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell", with music by Alfred Plumpton.

  One of the Bab Ballads. Published by Charles Jeffreys in ^[7]

• "Thady O'Flynn", with music by James L. Molloy. Published by Boosey & Co on 7 October From No Cards.^[8]
• "Would You Know that Maiden Fair", with music by Frederic Clay. From Ages Ago.
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• "Corisande", with music by James L. Molloy. Published by Boosey on 18 June ^[7]
• "Eily's Reason", with music by James L. Molloy. Published by Boosey on 27 February ^[7]
• Three songs from A Sensation Novel: "The Detective's Song", "The Tyrannical Bridegroom", and "The Jewel".

  Published by Hopwood & Co in ^[10]

• "The Distant Shore", with music by Arthur Sullivan.
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  Published by Chappell & Co on 18 December ^[7]

• "The Love that Loves me Not", with music by Arthur Sullivan. Published by Novello, Ewer & Co in ^[7]
• "Sweethearts", with music by Arthur Sullivan. Based on the play of the same name and used to promote it. Published by Chappell & Co in ^[11]
• "Let Me Stay", with music by Walter Maynard.

  Published by Boosey on 13 December The same lyric was set by Edward German for Broken Hearts.^[7]

See also

Notes

References

• Allen, Reginald (), W.
  Irish port in county louth English dramatist, poet and illustrator — Gilbert and Sullivan. In other projects. Gilbert is a perfect autocrat, insisting that his words should be delivered, even to an inflection of the voice, as he dictates.

  S. Gilbert: An Anniversary Survey and Exhibition Checklist with Thirty-five Illustrations, The Biographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

• Bradley, Ian (). The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;.
• Crowther, Andrew ().

  Contradiction Contradicted &#; The Plays of W. S. Gilbert. Associated University Presses. ISBN&#;.

• Gilbert, W. S. (). Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales. London: George Routledge and Sons.
• Gilbert, W. S. (). Original Plays: First Series. London: Chatto and Windus.
• Stedman, Jane W.

  (). W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Victorian & His Theatre. Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;.

• Wolfson, John (c. ). Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. London: Chappell & Company Ltd. ISBN&#;.