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ORIGINAL PLAYS

W. S. GILBERT.

New York:
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, & CO.
1876.

Stereotyped and printed by
Rand, Avery, and Company,
117 Franklin Street,
Boston.

[NOTE.]

The Story upon which ‘The Palace of Truth’ is founded is probably as old as the ‘Arabian Nights.’ ‘The Princess’ is a respectful parody of Mr. Tennyson’s exquisite poem. It has been generally held, I believe, that if a dramatist uses the mere outline of an existing story for dramatic purposes, he is at liberty to describe his play as “original.”

W. S. GILBERT.

London, Nov. 18, 1875.

[CONTENTS.]

	PAGE
[Note]	[5]
[Contents]	[7]
[The Wicked World]	[9]
[Pygmalion and Galatea]	[73]
[Charity]	[135]
[The Princess]	[211]
[The Palace of Truth]	[265]
[Trial by Jury]	[341]
[Transcriber’s Note]

THE WICKED WORLD:

An Original Fairy Comedy,