Author:William Schwenck Gilbert

For authors with similar names, see Author:William Gilbert.

William Schwenck Gilbert
(1836–1911)

William Schwenck Gilbert

Scans

Works

Short stories

• Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales (1890)

Dramatic works

Collections

• Original Plays (1876)

Operettas with composer Arthur Sullivan

• 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)

Other comic operas

• 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)

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 (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)

Poems

Collections

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

Individual poems

• 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)

Other works

• The Pinafore Picture Book (1908)

Works about Gilbert

• "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.