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BOOKS & LIBRETTI
All libretti are presented in as complete a form as possible, including dialogue and lyrics cut during initial production and are stored using the standard .PDF format and can be viewed and printed via any version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Libretti are listed in chronological order of first production.
There are still a number of
libretti to be added.
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BOOKS ABOUT
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COMPILATIONS OF
GILBERT & SULLIVAN LIBRETTI
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The books of
WILLIAM GILBERT Snr.
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INDIVIDUAL LIBRETTI
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Dulcamara, or The Little Duck
and the Great Quack (1866) |
Cox and Box;
or, The Long Lost Brothers (1866) |
La Vivandière; or True to the
Corps! (1867) |
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The Contrabandista; or, The
Law of the Ladrones (1867) |
The Merry Zingara; or, The
Tipsy Gipsy and the Pipsy Wipsy (1868) |
Robert the Devil; or, The
Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun (1868) |
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No
Cards (1869) |
The Pretty Druidess; or The
Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough (1869) |
Ages Ago (1869) |
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The Gentleman in Black (1870) |
Our Island Home (1870) |
The Brigands (1871) |
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A Sensation Novel (1871) |
Creatures of Impulse (1871) |
Thespis;
or, The Gods Grown Old (1871) |
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Happy Arcadia (1872) |
The Happy
Land (1873) |
Topsyturveydom (1874) |
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Trial by Jury (1875) |
The Zoo
(1875) |
Eyes and No Eyes; or, The Art
of Seeing (1875) |
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Princess
Toto (1876) |
The Sorcerer (1877) |
H.M.S.
Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor (1878) |
The
Pirates of Penzance; or, Love and Duty (1879
(The Definitive
Libretto containing material from the Paignton and New York premieres) |
The
Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty (1880)
(Standard libretto) |
Patience; or, Bunthorne's
Bride (1881)
Includes dialogue and lyrics
deleted during the rehearsal period and first production and includes
the sheet music of the deleted Act One song for the Duke. |
Iolanthe; or, The Peer and
the Peri (1882)
Contains dialogue and lyrics
deleted during rehearsal and original first production |
Princess Ida; or, Castle
Adamant (1884) |
The Mikado; or, The Town of
Titipu (1885) |
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Ruddygore;
or, The Witch's Curse (1887) |
The Yeomen of the Guard; or,
The Merryman and his Maid (1888) |
The
Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria (1889)
(Standard Libretto) |
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Ivanhoe (1891) |
The Nautch Girl; or, The
Rajah of Chutneypore (1891) |
The Vicar
of Bray (1892) |
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The Mountebanks (1892) |
"Haste to
the Wedding" (1892) |
An
Italian Straw Hat; or, "Haste to the Wedding"
(musically expanded
version of "Haste to the Wedding") |
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Haddon Hall (1892) |
Jane Annie;
or, The Good-conduct Prize (1893) |
Utopia,
(Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress (1893) |
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Mirette (1894) |
His Excellency (1894) |
The Chieftain; or, The Law of
the Ladrones (1894) |
The Grand Duke; or, The
Statutory Duel (1896)
Standard Libretto |
His Majesty; or, The Court of Vignolia (1897) |
The Grand Duchess of
Gerolstein (1897) |
The Beauty Stone (1898)
For Eden revision
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The Lucky Star (1899) |
The Rose
of Persia; or, The Story-teller and the Slave (1899) |
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The
Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrig-Cleena (1901) |
Ib and Little Christina
(1901) |
Merrie England (1902) |
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A Princess of Kensington
(1903) |
The Mountaineers (1909) |
Fallen
Fairies (1909) |
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Two Merry Monarchs (1910) |
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