W. S. Gilbert bibliography

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

Selected short stories

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

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:

German Reed Entertainments

Gilbert wrote six one-act musical entertainments for the German Reeds between 1869 and 1875. They were successful in their own right and also helped form Gilbert's mature style as a dramatist. These include:

Early comic operas

The Gilbert and Sullivan operas

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

Later operas without Sullivan

Though not as popular as the works with Arthur Sullivan, a few of Gilbert's later works arguably have stronger plots than the last two Gilbert and Sullivan operas.[4]

Parlour ballads

Gilbert is known to have written lyrics for twelve parlour ballads.[5] These are:

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Crowther, Andrew. "Gilbert's Non-Dramatic Works", The W.S. Gilbert Society, accessed 13 September 2015
  2. Gilbert (1890), passim
  3. Crowther (2000), p. 81
  4. See, e.g., Wolfson, pgs 64-65.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Allen, p. 74
  6. Allen p. 25
  7. Allen p. 28
  8. Allen p. 32
  9. Allen, p. 41

References

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