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Line 1: {{similar\|Author:William Gilbert}}{{author ~~{{author~~ \| firstname = William Schwenck \| lastname = Gilbert \| last_initial = GGi \| description = English dramatist, librettist and illustrator, best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer [[author:Arthur Sullivan\|Arthur Sullivan]] ~~\|birthyear = 1836~~ }} ~~\|deathyear = 1911~~ \|description = An English dramatist, librettist and illustrator, best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer [[author:Arthur Sullivan\|Arthur Sullivan]]. Most of their Savoy operas continue to be performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Lines from these works have become part of the English language, such as "short, sharp shock", "What, never? Well, hardly ever!" and "Let the punishment fit the crime". {{scans\|W_S_Gilbert}} ~~\|image = Gilbert-GS-Big.JPG~~ ~~\|wikipedia_link = W. S. Gilbert~~ ~~\|wikiquote_link = W. S. Gilbert~~ ~~\|commons_link = Category:W. S. Gilbert~~ }} ==Works== ~~===Operettas with composer Arthur Sullivan===~~ * ''[[Thespis]]'' * ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' * ''[[The Sorcerer]]'' * ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' * ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' * ''[[Patience (operetta)\|Patience]]'' * ''[[Iolanthe]]'' * ''[[Princess Ida]]'' * ''[[The Mikado]]'' * ''[[Ruddigore]]'' * ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]'' * ''[[The Gondoliers]]'' * ''[[Utopia, Limited]]'' * ''[[The Grand Duke]]'' ===~~Bab~~Short ~~ballads~~stories=== * ''{{scan\|Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales\|Foggerty.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1890) * [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/bab_ballads/html/ballads.html External link] ===Dramatic works=== ====Collections==== * ''{{scan\|Original Plays (Gilbert)\|Gilbert Original Plays.djvu\|Original Plays\|end=1}}'' (1876) ====Operettas with composer Arthur Sullivan==== * ''[[Thespis]]'' (1871) * ''{{scan\|Trial by Jury\|Trial by Jury lib.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1875) * ''{{scan\|The Sorcerer\|The Sorcerer.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1877) * ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' (1878) * ''{{scan\|The Pirates of Penzance\| Pirates of Penzance (Hitchcock publication).djvu\|end=1}}'' (1879) * ''[[Patience (operetta)\|Patience]]'' (1881) * ''{{scan\|Iolanthe\|Iolanthe lib.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1883) * ''[[Princess Ida]]'' (1884) * ''{{scan\|The Mikado\|The Mikado or the town of titipu.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1885) * ''{{scan\|Ruddigore\|Ruddigore.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1887) * ''{{scan\|The Yeomen of the Guard\|The Yeomen of the Guard.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1888) * ''[[The Gondoliers]]'' (1889) * ''[[Utopia, Limited]]'' (1893) * ''[[The Grand Duke]]'' (1896) ====Other comic operas==== * ''[[The Gentleman in Black]]'' (1870) * ''[[Les Brigands]]'' (1871) * ''[[Topsyturveydom]]'' (1874) * ''[[Princess Toto]]'' (1876) * ''[[The Mountebanks (opera)\|The Mountebanks]]'' (1892) * ''[[Haste to the Wedding]]'' (1892) * ''[[His Excellency (opera)\|His Excellency]]'' (1894) * ''[[Fallen Fairies]]'' (1909) ====Works for German Reed Entertainments==== * ''[[No Cards]]'' (1869) * ''[[Ages Ago]]'' (1869) * ''[[Our Island Home]]'' (1870) * ''[[A Sensation Novel]]'' (1871) * ''[[Happy Arcadia]]'' (1872) * ''[[Eyes and No Eyes]]'' (1875) ====Other dramatic works==== * ''[[Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack]]'' (1866) * ''[[La Vivandière (Gilbert)\|La Vivandière]]'' (1867) * ''[[Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren]]'' (1867) * ''[[The Merry Zingara]]'' (1868) * ''[[Robert the Devil (Gilbert)\|Robert the Devil]]'' (1868) * ''[[The Pretty Druidess]]'' (1869) * ''[[An Old Score]]'' (1869) * ''[[The Princess (play)\|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 Wicked World]]'' (1873) * ''[[The Happy Land]]'' (1873) * ''[[The Realm of Joy]]'' (1873) * ''[[The Wedding March (play)\|The Wedding March]]'' (1873) * ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gilbert)\|Rosencrantz & Guildenstern]]'' (published 1874, performed 1891) * ''[[Charity (play)\|Charity]]'' (1874) * ''[[Sweethearts (play)\|Sweethearts]]'' (1874) * ''[[Tom Cobb]]'' (1875) * ''[[Broken Hearts]]'' (1875) * ''[[Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith]]'' (1876) * ''[[Engaged (play)\|Engaged]]'' (1877) * ''[[The Ne'er-do-Weel]]'' (1878) * ''[[The Forty Thieves]]'' (1878) * ''[[Gretchen (play)\|Gretchen]]'' (1879) * ''[[Foggerty's Fairy]]'' (1881) * ''[[Brantinghame Hall]]'' (1888) * ''[[The Fortune Hunter]]'' (1897) * ''[[The Fairy's Dilemma]]'' (1904) * ''[[The Hooligan]]'' (1911) ===Poems=== ====Collections==== * ''{{scan\|The "Bab" Ballads\|The Bab Ballads.djvu\|The 'Bab' Ballads\|end=1}}'' (1868) * ''[[More 'Bab' Ballads]]'' (1872) * ''[[Fifty 'Bab' Ballads]]'' (1876) * ''{{scan\|Songs of a Savoyard\|Songs of a Savoyard.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1890) ====Individual poems==== * [[The Advent of Spring]] (1862) * [[The Cattle Show]] (1863) * [[Down to the Derby]] (1864) * [[The Dream (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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\|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 (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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 (Gilbert)\|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) ===Other works=== * ''{{scan\|The Pinafore Picture Book\|The Pinafore Picture Book.djvu\|end=1}}'' (1908) ==Works about Gilbert== * {{SBDEL link\|Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk\|app}} * {{EB1911 Link\|Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk\|author=[[Author:Thomas Seccombe (1866-1923)\|Thomas Seccombe]]}} * {{DNB link\|year=12\|Gilbert, William Schwenck}} * {{Men-at-the-Bar link\|Gilbert, William Schwenck}} * [[The Strand Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 10/Illustrated Interviews\|"Illustrated Interviews No. IV.—Mr. W. S. Gilbert"]], in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', October 1891. {{~~Pd/1923\|1911~~PD-old}} {{authority control}} [[Category:English authors]] ~~[[Category:United Kingdom authors]]~~ [[Category:Playwrights]] [[Category:Early modern poets]]