F. C. Burnand
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Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.
Theatre poster for Burnard's Black Eyed See-Usan
Poster for The Contrabandista
Burnand, c. 1870s
J. L. Toole in Burnand's Paw Claudian, 1884
The Chieftain
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The Chieftain is a two-act comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand based on their 1867 opera, The Contrabandista. It consists of substantially the same first act as the 1867 work with a compl
Poster showing Scott Fishe as Ferdinand de Roxas
Perry and Passmore
Sullivan and Burnand caricatured in Punch at the time of the premiere
Grigg installed as chieftain