William Hunter Kendal Young Marlowe to her Kate Hardcastle. He was also Captain Beauclerc in "Diplomacy", William in "William and Susan", W. G. Wills's customized rewriting of Douglas Jerrold's "Black-Eyed Susan", and Aubrey Tanqueray to his wife's Paula in Pinero's "The Second Mrs Tanqueray". He was Pygmalion to his wife's Galatea in W. S. Gilbert's "Pygmalion and Galatea" (1871), and the pair starred in the series of "fairy comedies" by Gilbert in the early 1870s, including "The Palace of Truth" (1870), "Broken Hearts", "The Wicked World" (1873) and "Broken Hearts" (1875), as well as Gilbert's drama "Charity" (1874). Kendal and his wife starred
Acis and Galatea (Handel) significant amount of humor without diminishing the pathos of the tragedy of the primary characters, Acis and Galatea. The music of the first act is both elegant and sensual, while the final act takes on a more melancholy and plaintive tone. The opera was significantly influenced by the pastoral operas presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the early 18th century. Reinhard Keiser and Henry Purcell also served as influences, but overall the conception and execution of the work is wholly individual to Handel. "Acis and Galatea" was by far Handel's most popular dramatic work and is his only