"Dido" was followed by "The Îles of St Tropez" (1860), "Fair Rosamond" (1862) and "The Deal Boatman" (1863), among many others. His most memorable early success was another musical burlesque, "Ixion, or the Man at the Wheel" (1863), starring Lydia Thompson in the title role, which found audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. By this time Burnand was a skilled negotiator with theatre managements, and he was among the first authors to insist on profit-sharing instead of fixed royalties. For "Ixion" this brought him a total of around £3,000. Other notable early works included an opéra bouffe, "Windsor Castle" (1865), with music by Frank Musgrave, and more pun-filled burlesques, including "Helen, or, Taken from the Greek", and "Guy Fawkes, or The Ugly Mug and the Couple of Spoons", both in 1866. Later in 1866 Burnand had a huge success with the burlesque "The Latest Edition of Black-Eyed Susan; or, the Little Bill that Was Taken Up", parodying the three-act melodrama by Douglas Jerrold, "Black-Eyed Susan"; the show ran for 400 nights at the Royalty Theatre, was played for years provincially and in the US, and was twice revived in London.