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* AdaptationExpansion: Pretty much a major expansion of ''[[http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/bab_ballads/html/rival_curates.html The Rival Curates]]'', though [[PragmaticAdaptation Gilbert knew that, as much as he might want to poke fun of clerics on the stage]], he'd cause [[MoralGuardians every cleric out there -- who were already, many of them, railing against the wicked stage from the pulpit]] -- to think they'd been proven right.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Patience and Archibald Grosvenor.
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* {{Curse}}: Bunthorne threatens Grosvenor with one.
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* EveryoneMustBePaired: The soldiers and the women were engaged before the opera, but the women broke it off so they could FanGirl Bunthorne. In the end, everyone pairs off (except Bunthorne), but one of the jokes is that no-one in the cast has the faintest understanding of what love really is, so there's a sort of rapid-fire fiancée-swapping set to music ("If Saphir I choose to marry..."), and the Duke chooses to marry the ChristmasCake because she's the only woman there who isn't drop-dead gorgeous, and he's quite aware he's completely dull and average.
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* IAmSong:
** "I'm A Waterloo House Young Man"
** "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We"
** "I'm A Waterloo House Young Man"
** "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We"
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* StylisticSuck: Parodied with Bunthorne's poetry.
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* LoveFreak: All the women except Patience are in love with the poetic ideal of love. (Although this being a satire, their ideal involves a lot of melodramatic pining.)
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Although Bunthorne is widely thought to represent Creator/OscarWilde, he is not made up to look like Wilde, but more like James Whistler, the American artist of "Whistler's Mother" fame. Grosvenor is thought to represent the English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Although Bunthorne "fleshly poet" Reginald Bunthorne, is widely thought to represent Creator/OscarWilde, he the actor playing Bunthorne is not usually made up to look like Wilde, but more like James Whistler, resemble Wilde's fellow wit, the American artist painter, James Abbott [=McNeill=] Whistler of "Whistler's Mother" fame. Grosvenor ''Whistler's Mother'' fame.[[note]]Wilde did later become associated with ''Theatre/{{Patience}}'' when Richard D'Oyly Carte persuaded him to lecture in American cities where ''Patience'' was touring so theatergoers would understand what the play was satirizing.[[/note]] Bunthorne's rival, the "idyllic poet" Archibald Grosvenor, is thought based on and made up to represent resemble the English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne.Swinburne, who was born on a street called Grosvenor Place.
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* BigNo: The unanimous response Bunthorne receives when he offers to recite some of his poetry. He does so anyway, and [[StylisticSuck it is terrible]].
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* BigNo: The unanimous response Bunthorne receives from all the dragoons in unison when he offers to recite some of his poetry. He does so anyway, and [[StylisticSuck it is terrible]].terrible]] (but the ladies love it anyway).
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* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Bunthorne secretly dislikes poetry and aestheticism (when alone he sings a song mocking the latter's ridiculousness) but maintains the persona of an aesthetic poet because he likes the admiration it gets him from women.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Patience has it explained to her that love must be completely unselfish, she concludes that she needs to become engaged to a person she finds completely unattractive, since being with someone she enjoys being around would obviously be selfish.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The soldiers love the maids, who all love Bunthorne, who loves Patience, who [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove loves nobody]].
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The soldiers Dragoons love the maids, Lovesick Maidens, who all love Bunthorne, who loves Patience, who [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove loves nobody]].nobody]]. Lady Jane loves Bunthorne even more, but he loathes her. Then in act two, all the maids fall in love with Grosvener, who also loves Patience, who can't return his love because she winds up attached to Bunthorne who she ''still'' does not love, and the Dragoons are left even more annoyed. At least it works out in the end for [[spoiler: everyone except Bunthorne]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When he is alone [[NoFourthWall with the audience]], Bunthorne confesses ("If You're Anxious For To Shine") that he is not really into aesthetic poetry, just putting on airs to impress everyone by [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible appearing deep]].
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* ChristmasCake: Lady Jane
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* GrandeDame: Lady Jane, again.
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* GrandeDame: Lady Jane, again.again, discussed wistfully in her song "Silvered Is The Raven Hair."
* GoodLookingPrivates: Discussed in "When First I Put This Uniform On." When the Dragoons first joined up, they were persuaded that women would find their uniforms very attractive. In actuality this has rather mixed results-- the chorus of ladies does in fact find them attractive, just not as attractive as [[PrettyBoy aesthetic poets]].
* GoodLookingPrivates: Discussed in "When First I Put This Uniform On." When the Dragoons first joined up, they were persuaded that women would find their uniforms very attractive. In actuality this has rather mixed results-- the chorus of ladies does in fact find them attractive, just not as attractive as [[PrettyBoy aesthetic poets]].
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* HighClassGlass: Bunthorne, only in some productions
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* PrettyBoy: Bunthorne aspires to be; Grosvener actually is. The Dragoons spend most of the show disgruntled that women prefer this look to GoodLookingPrivates.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Poor Grosvenor.Grosvenor is so handsome that [[SexyManInstantHarem every woman who sees him immediately falls madly in love with him]]. Worse, the one woman he actually does want turns him down on the grounds that love should be selfless and loving such an attractive man is obviously selfish.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Grosvener is SoBeautifulItsACurse.
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* MoralityBallad: Satirized in Grosvener's poems "Gentle Jane" and "Teasing Tom."
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* SexyManInstantHarem: Grosvener. "Conceive, then, the [[BlessedWithSuck horror of my situation]] when I tell you that it is my [[SoBeautifulItsACurse hideous destiny to be madly loved at first sight]] by [[UnwantedHarem every woman I come across]]!"
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* SexyManInstantHarem: Grosvener.Grosvenor. "Conceive, then, the [[BlessedWithSuck horror of my situation]] when I tell you that it is my [[SoBeautifulItsACurse hideous destiny to be madly loved at first sight]] by [[UnwantedHarem every woman I come across]]!"
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* UnwantedHarem: Played with. Bunthorne affects an interest in aesthetic poetry because he thinks it will get him an (un)wanted harem, and this actually works quite well... until the handsome Grosvener shows up, causing the ladies to immediately transfer their affections.
--> '''Grosvener''': Yes yes--I am aesthetic
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* UnwantedHarem: Played with. Bunthorne affects an interest in aesthetic poetry because he thinks it will get him an (un)wanted harem, and this actually works quite well... until the handsome Grosvener Grosvenor shows up, causing the ladies to immediately transfer their affections.
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* AlliterativeName: Colonel Calverly, Major Murgatroyd, and the Duke of Dunstable.
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* BigNo: The unanimous response Bunthorne receives when he offers to recite some of his poetry. He does so anyway, and [[StylisticSuck it is terrible]].
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* {{Parody}}: Bunthorne's poetry and stylistic affectations satirized the "aesthetic movement" popularized by OscarWilde.
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* ExpospeakGag: Bunthorne's first poem, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!", is about how he has an upset stomach (presumably from eating straight butter while following Patience around the dairy) and now has to take laxatives or purgatives to treat it.
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* PatterSong: "If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery." (Doubles as an IAmSong since the Dragoons are introducing themselves.)
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* PatterSong: ''Patience'' offers several different flavors:
** We get the ListSong variety with "If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery." (Doubles as an IAmSong since the Dragoons are introducing themselves.))
** A more straightforward IAmSong in patter style is Bunthorne's "If You're Anxious For To Shine," though it could also be called an I-Am-Pretending-To-Be Song or even an I-Am-A-Shameless-Hypocrite Song.
** "Come, Walk Up, and Purchase with Avidity" is classic G&S patter in the tradition of the MajorGeneralSong, complete with choral echoes.
** "When I Go Out of Door" is a full-fledged, no-holds-barred patter ''duet'', an achievement unrivaled until the invention of the patter ''trio'' "My Eyes are Fully Open" for ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''.
** We get the ListSong variety with "If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery." (Doubles as an IAmSong since the Dragoons are introducing themselves.
** A more straightforward IAmSong in patter style is Bunthorne's "If You're Anxious For To Shine," though it could also be called an I-Am-Pretending-To-Be Song or even an I-Am-A-Shameless-Hypocrite Song.
** "Come, Walk Up, and Purchase with Avidity" is classic G&S patter in the tradition of the MajorGeneralSong, complete with choral echoes.
** "When I Go Out of Door" is a full-fledged, no-holds-barred patter ''duet'', an achievement unrivaled until the invention of the patter ''trio'' "My Eyes are Fully Open" for ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''.
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* StrawCritic: Bunthorne. "Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and declare it's crude and mean, / For art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine."
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Of all the 14 operettas in the Gilbert & Sullivan series, the subject matter of ''Patience'' is the most remote to modern audiences because aestheticism was a fad of Gilbert's day and did not have a lasting impact.
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Of all the 14 operettas in the Gilbert & Sullivan series, the subject matter of ''Patience'' is the most remote to modern audiences because aestheticism was a fad of Gilbert's day and did not have a lasting impact.impact, although the more general theme of artists being self-obsessed, pretentious and followed by an adoring inner circle remains topical to this day.
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* TheIngenue: Patience is woefully naive when it comes to matters of love, which is a major plot point.
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* [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All Girls Want Decadent Poets]]: All except Patience, that is.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Any resemblance of certain characters in this play to OscarWilde is probably not unintentional.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Any resemblance of certain characters in this play Although Bunthorne is widely thought to OscarWilde represent Creator/OscarWilde, he is probably not unintentional.made up to look like Wilde, but more like James Whistler, the American artist of "Whistler's Mother" fame. Grosvenor is thought to represent the English poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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* ReferenceOverdosed: "If You Want a Receipt" rattles off {{Shout Out}}s to a bewildering number of famous figures, some of them well-known but many of them well into ViewersAreGeniuses territory.
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* AffectionateParody: The show makes fun of the "aesthetic movement" as popularized by Creator/OscarWilde, but Wilde himself was a fan and even went on tour in America to help publicize the show. (It helped that G&S's producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, was also Wilde's booking agent.)
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* PatterSong: "If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery." (Doubles as an IAmSong since the Dragoons are introducing themselves.)
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[{{Invoked}} Parodied]]. "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me / Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: If you get even half the references in "If You Want a Receipt for that Popular Mystery," you may consider yourself remarkably well-read.
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* {{Moe}}: Patience and Grosvenor
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Parodied. "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me / Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"
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''Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride'' is a satire by [[GilbertAndSullivan [[Creator/GilbertAndSullivan W. S. Gilbert with music by Arthur Sullivan]] on the aesthetic movement and the soldiers of the 35th Dragoon Guard. The play deals with two rival poets, the grouchy, effeminate and decadent Bunthorne, and the kind and gentle but vain and vapid Grosvenor.
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* BachelorAuction: At one point, Bunthorne is prepared to raffle himself in marriage, angering the Dragoons since presumably one of their lovers would hold the winning ticket.
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* SexyManInstantHarem: Grosvener. "Conceive, then, the [[BlessedWithSuck horror of my situation]] when I tell you that it is my [[SoBeautifulItsACurse hideous destiny to be madly loved at first sight]] by [[UnwantedHarem every woman I come across]]!"
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* KickTheDog: Teasing Tom "punched his poor little sisters' heads/And Cayenne-peppered their four-post beds."
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''Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride'' is a satire by [[GilbertAndSullivan W. S. Gilbert with music by Arthur Sullivan]] on the aesthetic movement and the soldiers of the 35th Dragoon Guard. The play deals with two rival poets, the grouchy, effeminate and decadent Bunthorne, and the kind and gentle but vain and vapid Grosvenor.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The soldiers love the maids, who all love Bunthorne, who loves Patience, who [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove loves nobody]].
* GrandeDame: Lady Jane, again.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The second stanza of "The Magnet and The Churn."
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* MoralityBallad: Satirized in Grosvener's poems "Gentle Jane" and "Teasing Tom."
* OpeningChorus: [[IAmSong "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We."]]
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* StupidGood: PatiencePatience.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Parodied. "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me / Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Parodied. "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me / Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!"
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: The eponymous character specifically does not, in the beginning, understand why all the other women love when it is clear that LoveHurts. When it is explained to her, she immediately sets out to fall in love:
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--->'''Patience''': I had no idea that love was a duty!
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* BlessedWithSuck: Grosvener is SoBeautifulItsACurse.
* IronicEpisodeTitle: The subtitle is "Bunthorne's Bride"; as it turns out, Bunthorne's eventual bride is [[spoiler: nobody]].
* ListSong / PatterSong: This ''is'' GilbertAndSullivan. "If You Want a Receipt for that Popular Mystery..."
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Any resemblance of certain characters in this play to OscarWilde is probably not unintentional.
* {{Parody}}: Bunthorne's poetry and stylistic affectations satirized the "aesthetic movement" popularized by OscarWilde.
* {{Parody}}: Bunthorne's poetry and stylistic affectations satirized the "aesthetic movement" popularized by OscarWilde.
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Our female lead does not love, and is happy because she does not love (in both senses of the clause). She does admit love eventually ("I had no idea it was a duty!"). But after a third character is forced to renounce it, most of the other characters decide that romantic love is ''irrelevant.'' And, until the end, love is depicted as nothing but painful.
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* TheIngenue: Patience is woefully naive when it comes to matters of love, which is a major plot point.
* UnwantedHarem: Played with. Bunthorne affects an interest in aesthetic poetry because he thinks it will get him an (un)wanted harem, and this actually works quite well... until the handsome Grosvener shows up, causing the ladies to immediately transfer their affections.
--> '''Grosvener''': Yes yes--I am aesthetic
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--> '''All the Ladies''': Then, we love you!
--> '''Dragoons''': They love him! Horror!
--> '''Bunthorne and Patience''': They love him! Horror!
--> '''Grosvener''': They love me! Horror! Horror! Horror!
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--> '''Grosvener''': Yes yes--I am aesthetic
---> and poetic.
--> '''All the Ladies''': Then, we love you!
--> '''Dragoons''': They love him! Horror!
--> '''Bunthorne and Patience''': They love him! Horror!
--> '''Grosvener''': They love me! Horror! Horror! Horror!
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''Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride'' is a satire by W. S. Gilbert on the aesthetic movement and the soldiers of the 35th Dragoon Guard. The play deals with two rival poets, the grouchy, effeminate and decadent Bunthorne, and the kind and gentle but vain and vapid Grosvenor.
Patience, a dairy maid who knows nothing of love, is told it is the only truly unselfish emotion, and so sets out to find such truly selfless love. The other characters are a male chorus of manly and dashing but dim dragoons, and a female chorus of languid and pretentious but charming maidens.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lady Jane to Bunthorne. (While he wouldn't give any of his female admirers the time of day, he considers her the absolute worst.)
* [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All Girls Want Decadent Poets]]: All except Patience, that is.
* ChristmasCake: Lady Jane
* HaveAGayOldTime: Patience sings "For I Am Blithe and I Am Gay" in a song about her ignorance and innocence about love.
* HighClassGlass: Bunthorne, only in some productions
* {{Moe}}: Patience and Grosvenor
* PurpleProse: Parodied with the maidens who speak, for example, of the inner brotherhood of aesthetics being "consummately utter"; in other words, completely complete.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bunthorne and Grosvenor
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Grosvenor
* StupidGood: Patience
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Patience, a dairy maid who knows nothing of love, is told it is the only truly unselfish emotion, and so sets out to find such truly selfless love. The other characters are a male chorus of manly and dashing but dim dragoons, and a female chorus of languid and pretentious but charming maidens.
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!!This work provides examples of
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lady Jane to Bunthorne. (While he wouldn't give any of his female admirers the time of day, he considers her the absolute worst.)
* [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys All Girls Want Decadent Poets]]: All except Patience, that is.
* ChristmasCake: Lady Jane
* HaveAGayOldTime: Patience sings "For I Am Blithe and I Am Gay" in a song about her ignorance and innocence about love.
* HighClassGlass: Bunthorne, only in some productions
* {{Moe}}: Patience and Grosvenor
* PurpleProse: Parodied with the maidens who speak, for example, of the inner brotherhood of aesthetics being "consummately utter"; in other words, completely complete.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Bunthorne and Grosvenor
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Grosvenor
* StupidGood: Patience
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