W. S. Gilbert

However Gilbert could be extraordinarily kind. Written and ruW. S. Gilbertd to the stage in 10 days Dulcamara or the Little Duck and the Great Quack a burlesque of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore proved extremely popular. Gilbert.

The most famous of these are H. According to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Gilbert's "lyrical facility and his mastery of metre raised the poetical quality of comic opera to a position that it had never reached before and has not reached since".