Male : Dramatist & Artist. Collaborated with Arthur Sullivan (composer) on many comic operas

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1836 Date of Death : 1911 Age : 75

Other Work : Barrister 1863. Built and owned the Garrick Theatre. Clerk to the Privy Council 1857-1902

Education : Great Ealing School & King's College, London

1866-1870
Dulcamara, or The Little Duck and the Great Duck (1866 Strand Publ Co)
Harlequin Cock-Robin and Jeremy Wren (1867-8 Music Publ Co)
La Vivandiere, or True to the Corps (1867 Matthews Bros, Liverpool)
(1868 H Montague, Liverpool)
The Merry Zingara, or The Tipsy Gipsy and the Pipsy Wipsy (1868 Philips)
Robert the Devil, or The Nun, The Dun, and the Son of a Gun (1868 Philips)
The Pretty Druidess, or The Mother, The Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough (1869 Philips)
The 'Bab' Ballads : Much Sound and Little Sense (1869 Hotten, London) - Author
(1870 Routledge)
An Old Score : An original Comedy Drama (1870 Thomas Hailes Lacy)
(1877 Samuel French)
The Princess : A Whimsical Allegory (1870 Thomas Hailes Lacy)
The Gentleman in Black (1870 Thomas Hailes Lacy)
The Palace of Truth : A Fairy Comedy (1870 Thomas Hailes Lacy)

1871-1875
Randall's Thumb : An Original Comedy (1871 Thomas Hailes Lacy)
Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old (1871 Gaiety Theatre) - with Arthur Sullivan
Creatures of Impulse : A Musical Fairy Tale (1872 Thomas Hailes Lacy)
On Guard : An Entirely Original Comedy (1872 Samuel French)
Happy Arcadia (1872 PP)
(1896 Joseph Williams)
Pygmalion and Galatea (1872 Judd)
The Wicked World : An Entirely Original Fairy Comedy (1873 Judd for PP circulation)
(1884 French, US) (1887 French)
More 'Bab'Ballads : Much Sound and Little Sense (1873 Routledge) - Author
Complete 'Bab' Ballads (1874)
The Palace of Truth (1874)
Trial by Jury : A Novel & Original Dramatic Cantata (1875 Walter Smith) - with Arthur Sullivan
Pygmalion and Galatea (1875)

1876-1880
Princess Toto : A Comic Opera in Three Acts (1876 Metzler)
Original Plays (1876 Chatto & Windus) (1876 Scribner, Armstrong, NY)
Fifty Bab Ballads : Much Sound and Little Sense (1877 Routledge) - Author
The Sorcerer (1877 Metzler) - with Arthur Sullivan
Sweethearts : An Original Dramatic Contrast (1878 Samuel French)
The Ne'er-Do-Well : An Entirely Original Play (1878 PP)
HMS Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor (1878 Metzler)
Gretchen : A Play in Four Acts (1879 Newman) (1886 French)
The Wedding March : An Eccentricity in Three Acts (1879 Samuel French)
Original Plays : Second Series (1879 Chatto & Windus)
The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty (1880 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
[Filmed in 1982]

1881-1885
Patience or Bunthorne's Bride ! (1881 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
On Bail : A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts (1881 Samuel French)
Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy (1881 Samuel French)
Dan'l Bruce, Blacksmith (1881 Samuel French)
Engaged (1881 Samuel French)
Broken Hearts (1881 Samuel French)
Original Plays : Second Series, containing Broken Hearts (1881 C & W)
Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri (1882 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant (1884 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu (1885 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
[Filmed in 1939]
Charity : An Entirely Original Play (1885 Samuel French)

1886-1890
Ruddigore, or The Witches Curse (1887 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
The Yeoman of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid (1888 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
The Gilbert & Sullivan Birthday Book (1888 Pickering & Chatto)
Brantinghame Hall (1888 PP for Circulation)
Foggerty's Fairy & Other Tales (1889 Routledge)
The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria (1889 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
(1889 The Kohn Church Co, Cincinnatti)
Songs of a Savoyard (1890 Routledge) - Author
Original Comic Operas : containing The Sorcerer, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance,
Iolanthe, Patience, Princess Ida, The Mikado & Trial by Jury (1890 Chatto & Windus)
Foggerty's Fairy & Other Tales (1890 Routledge) - 1st Ed was suppressed

1891-1900
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891 Samuel French)
The Mountebacks (1892 Chappell)
Haste to the Wedding (1892 Chappell)
Utopia Limited, or The Flowers of Progress (1893 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
His Excellency (1894 Chappell)
Comedy and Tragedy : An original Drama in One act (1895 Samuel French)
Original Plays : Third Series (1895 Chatto & Windus)
The Gilbert & Sullivan Birthday Souvenir (1895 Saxon)
Ages Ago (1896 Joseph Williams)
Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing (1896 Joseph Williams)
Happy Arcadia (1896 Joseph Williams)
The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel (1896 Chappell) - with Arthur Sullivan
Original Comic Operas : Second Series, containing The Gondoliers (1896 Chappell / Chatto & Windus)
The Fortune Hunter : An original Play in Two Acts (1897 Printed for Private Use
by Henderson & Spalding)
The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard (1898 Routledge) - Author

1901-1910
No Cards : A Musical Piece in One Act (1901 Joseph Williams)
The Fairy's Dilemma : A Domestic Pantomime (1904 PP for Private Use)
The Pinafore Picture Book (1908 Geo Bell) - Alice B Woodward
The Savoy Operas (1909 Bell, London) - W Russell Flint
Fallen Fairies, or The Wicked World (1909 Chappell)
Iolanthe & other Operas (1910 Bell, London) - W Russell Flint

1911-1920
Original Plays : Fourth Series (1911 Chatto & Windus)
Patience (1911 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
The Pirates of Penzance (1911 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
Iolanthe (1911 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
The Mikado (1911 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
A Sensation Novel, in 3 Volumes (1912 Joseph Williams)
Princess Ida (1912 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
The Yeoman of the Guard (1912 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
Ruddigore (1912 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint
The Gondoliers (1912 Geo Bell) - W Russell Flint

After 1921
The Story of the Mikado (1921 Daniel O'Connor, Chiswick Press) - Alice B Woodward
The Savoy Operas (1926 Macmillan)
The Mikado (1928 Macmillan) - W Russell Flint & C E Brock
The Yeoman of the Guard (1929 Macmillan) - W Russell Flint & Charles E Brock
Topsyturvydom : An original extravaganza (131 PP at OUP)
A Colossal Idea : An original Farce (1932 Putnams)
Lost Bab Ballads (1932 Putnams) - decorated by Townley Searle
Selected Bab Ballads (1955 Allen Lane) - 1500
The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan (1958 Heritage Press, US)
Gilbert Before Sullivan : Six Comic Plays (1967 Chicago UP) (1969 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Dick Deadeye : Drawings from Gilbert & Sullivan (1975 Cape) - Ronald Searle
The Lost Stories of W S Gilbert (1982 Robson Books)
Plays by W S Gilbert (1983 CUP)

BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY W S GILBERT
The Spectre : An Algerian Monkey, Versus British Apes (1864 London)
William GILBERT : The Magic Mirror (1865 Strahan)
The Seven League Boots (1869 Strahan)
King George's Middy (1869 Bell & Daldy)
Henry MAYHEW : London Characters (1874 Chatto & Windus) - et al
Piccadilly Annual : 1874 (1874 Chatto & Windus) - et al

READING
1888-1950
George Grossmith : A Society Clown (1888 Arrowsmith)
Percy Fitzgerald : The Savoy Operas and the Savoyards (1894 Chatto & Windus)
Rutland Barrington : Rutland Barrington by Himself (1908 Grant Richards)
Rutland Barrington : More Rutland Barrington (1911 Grant Richards)
Sidney Dark & Rowland Grey : W S Gilbert, His Life & Letters (1923 Methuen)
Henry Lytton : The Secrets of a Savoyard (1927 Jarrolds)
Herbert Sullivan & Newman Flower : Sir Arthur Sullivan - His Life, Letters & Diaries (1927 Cassell)
Townley Searle : A Bibliography of W S Gilbert (1931 John McQueen) - 300
Henry Lytton : A Wandering Minstrel (1933 Jarrolds)
Hesketh Pearson : Gilbert & Sullivan (1935 Hamish Hamilton)

1951-1970
W A Darlington : The World of Gilbert & Sullivan (1951 Peter Nevill)
Arthur Jacobs : Gilbert & Sullivan (1951 Max Parrish)
Leslie Baily : The Gilbert & Sullivan Book (1952 Cassell) (1966 Spring Books)
Martyn Green : Here's a How-De-Do (1952 Max Reinhardt)
Hesketh Pearson : Gilbert, His Life & Strife (1957 Methuen)
Martyn Green : Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan (1961 Reinhardt)
Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson : Gilbert & Sullivan - A Picture History (1962 Vista Books)
Cyril Rollins & R John Witts : The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert & Sullivan Opera - A
Record of Productions 1875-1961 (1962 Michael Joseph)
Reginald Allen : W S Gilbert - An Anniversary Survey (1963 Virginia UP Bibl Soc)
Terence Rees : Thespis - A Gilbert & Sullivan Enigma (1964 Dillons)
Derek Hudson : The Savoy Operas (1967 OUP)
(Ed) John Bush Jones : W S Gilbert - A Century of Scholarship and Commentary (1970 New York UP)

After 1971
Michael Hardwick : The Osprey Guide to Gilbert & Sullivan (1972 Osprey)
Leslie Bayly : Gilbert & Sullivan and Their World (1973 Thames & Hudson)
Leslie Ayre : The Gilbert & Sullivan Companion (1974 Pan Pb)
Harry Benford : The Gilbert & Sullivan Lexicon (1978 Richards Rosen, US)
(Ed) Ian Bradley : The Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan (1982-4 Penguin) - 2 vols
Robin Wilson & Frederic Lloyd : Gilbert & sullivan - The D'Oyly Carte Years
(1984 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Arthur Jacobs : Arthur Sullivan - A Victorian Musician (1984 OUP)
Charles Hayter : Gilbert & Sullivan (1987 Macmillan)