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Engaged is a three-act farcical comedy by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on October 3, 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer, one of Gilbert's comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the collaborators' great success in H.M.S. Pinafore. Engaged was well received on the London stage and then in New York City, where the first production of the play opened in February 1879. The work has continued to be produced thereafter on both sides of the Atlantic.[1]
Engaged has been W. S. Gilbert's most popular stage work aside from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. A The New York Times' review (dated February 24, 1886) of an 1886 production of Engaged called it an "elaborate burlesque" and noted that "the laughter was almost incessant."[2] Makers wrote: "Engaged [is] unquestionably the finest and funniest English comedy between Bulwer-Lytton's Money and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, (1895) which it directly inspired".[2] Engaged may also have inspired George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.[3]
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