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 of the 50 Nereids. In Ovid's "Metamorphoses" she appears as the beloved of Acis, the son of Faunus and the river-nymph Symaethis, daughter of the River Symaethus. When a jealous rival, the Sicilian Cyclops Polyphemus, killed him with a boulder, Galatea then turned his blood into the Sicilian River Acis, of which he became the spirit. This version of the tale occurs nowhere earlier and may be a fiction invented by Ovid, "suggested by the manner in which the little river springs forth from under a rock". According to Athenaeus, ca 200 CE, the story was first concocted by Philoxenus