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- Topsyturveydom abstract "Topsyturveydom (sometimes spelled Topsyturvydom or Topseyturveydom) is a one-act operetta by W. S. Gilbert with music by Alfred Cellier. Styled "an entirely original musical extravaganza", it is based on one of Gilbert's Bab Ballads, "My Dream". It opened on 21 March 1874 at the Criterion Theatre in London and ran until 17 April, for about 25 performances. This was the first work shown at the newly built Criterion, and it was played together with An American Lady, written and performed by Gilbert's friend, the dramatist and Fun magazine founder, Henry J. Byron. The musical score to Topsyturveydom does not survive, but amateur productions in recent decades have used newly composed scores or performed the work as a non-musical play.Advertisements for the work spelled the title "Topsyturveydom", whereas the license copy of the libretto, filed with the Lord Chamberlain's office, and now held in the British Library, spells it "Topsyturvydom". Topsyturveydom is set in a quasi-utopia (reminiscent of Gilbert's earlier Happy Arcadia (1872), or even Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels), where things are the opposite of the norm. Party politics is lampooned, much as it would be two decades later in Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited. As in that work, the king is a "detested" monarch. Gilbert also renews the idea of party politics working in a backwards way in Iolanthe, where the House of Lords is threatened with obsolescence by having its members selected by competitive examination.".
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- Topsyturveydom quote ""Have you no eyes within your head?".
- Topsyturveydom quote ""You quite upset our every law.".
- Topsyturveydom quote "''Like many of Gilbert's plays,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "A sailor should be sick at sea,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And Art at all their fingertips. For, as their nurses dandle them,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And cut, to carry out this view,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And glean the motives of a thief".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And not a passenger may sail".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And only good men do, in fact,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "And sages close their aged eyes".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Are born astonishingly wise;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Are duller than our idiots!" But this remark, I grieve to state,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Before he calls himself a man. For that which we call folly here,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "But if to think it out you try,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "But there the beaks".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Came just a little bit too late;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Commit all robberies instead. Our judges, pure and wise in tone,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Commit all robbers who are found;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Derives them from the common sense".
- Topsyturveydom quote "For as I framed it in my head,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "From books and popular belief. But there, a judge who wants to prime".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Gilbert's Bab Ballads, quoted below.'' MY DREAM The other night, from cares exempt,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "He must forget it, if he can,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "His mind with true ideas of crime,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "His wisdom teeth and wisdom too. Historians burn their midnight oils,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "However can you get along".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I dreamt that somehow I had come".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I framed this brilliant repartee: Although your babes are wiser far".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I muse awhile—and then, oh me!".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I ought to do extremely well.".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I slept—and what d'you think I dreamt?".
- Topsyturveydom quote "I woke and found myself in bed. Still I could wish that, 'stead of here,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Intent on giant-killers' toils;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Is always shot for showing pluck—".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Is blatant folly in their eyes. A boy, if he would push his way,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Is born with learning in his head,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Is wisdom in that favoured sphere;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "It doesn't really signify. With them, as surely as can be,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Know crime from theory alone,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Less learned than our babies are!"".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Must learn some nonsense every day;".
- Topsyturveydom quote "My lot were in that favoured sphere!—".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Of course, I m—ean to say, you know,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Of practical experience. Policemen march all folks away".
- Topsyturveydom quote "On differential calculus. But though a babe, as I have said,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Per contra, women all are men. To one who to tradition clings".
- Topsyturveydom quote "So systematically wrong?" "Dear me," my mad informant said,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "Than our most valued sages are,".
- Topsyturveydom quote "That is, if others can be found".
- Topsyturveydom quote "The girls are boys—the boys are girls!".