![]() ![]() ![]() His creative output included more than 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse, which his own comical drawings accompany. From these works, lines, such as "short, sharp shock", "What, never? Well, hardly ever!", and "Let the punishment fit the crime," form common phrases of the English language. Opera companies, repertory companies, schools and community theatre groups throughout and beyond the English-speaking world continue to perform regularly these operas as well as most of their other Savoy operas. ![]() This English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator in collaboration with this composer produced fourteen comic operas, which include The Mikado, one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre. British playwright and lyricist Sir William Schwenck Gilbert wrote a series of comic operas, including Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879), with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. ![]()
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