Temple continued to appear in various comic operas and musical comedies, including "A Prince of Borneo" (1899), billed as "an operatic farce"; "The Gay Pretenders" (1900), with George Grossmith senior and junior, and Frank Wyatt; and the captain in "San Toy" on tour in 1901. He also played Northumberland in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of William Shakespeare's Richard II at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1903, and that Christmas, he was in "Little Hans Andersen" as King of the Copper Castle, produced by William Greet with members of the Savoy company.