Pierrot respectively); and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play "Pierrot of the Minute" (1897, illustrated by Beardsley). (The American poet William Theodore Peters, who commissioned Dowson's piece and would play Pierrot in its premiere, published a poetic "Epilogue" for it in 1896, and the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue [1908].) One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into "Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing" (1875), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music. And he ensured that neither character, contrary to many an Aesthetic
Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book. When Harper's Magazine excerpted "Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend", Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first three sentences: are an anagram of: Carroll has been voted by the staff and readers of "" as the least likely suspect (out of 22 names featured) to have actually been Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898), and his