The Happy Land, a burlesque of Gilbert's The Wicked World, written by Gilbert himself under the pseudonym F. Tomline in collaboration with Gilbert à Beckett, was produced at the Court Theatre on 3rd March 1873.

Illustration from the Illustrated London News,
22nd March 1873, scanned by Adam Cuerden.
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• Background by Andrew Crowther
• Bibliography
• Synopsis by Andrew Crowther
• Script
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  • Text [48Kb]
• Reviews of the Production
  • From The Times, 6th March 1873
  • From The Staffordshire Sentinel submitted to the Archive by Louis Silverstein
• Illustrated Music Covers
  

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