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Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith
''Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith'' is a play by W. S. Gilbert, styled "A Three-Act Drama of Puritan times". It opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 11 September 1876, starring Hermann Vezin, Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Marion Terry. The play was a success, running for about 100 performances and enjoying tours and several revivals. It was popular enough to be burlesqued in a contemporary work, ''Dan'l Tra-Duced, Tinker'', at the Strand Theatre.〔Moss, Simon. ("Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith" ) at ''Gilbert & Sullivan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia'', c20th.com, accessed 16 November 2009〕 In an 1894 revival, Nancy McIntosh played Dorothy.
The text notes that "An incident in the First Act was suggested by George Eliot's Novel ''Silas Marner''."
==Background==
Gilbert and Sullivan had already produced their hit one-act comic opera ''Trial by Jury'' by the time ''Dan'l Druce'' was written, but both Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were still producing a considerable amount of work separately. The comic actor Edward Sothern had contacted Gilbert, in April 1875, noting that he was taking over the management of the Haymarket Theatre and needed a play for December, though Sothern did not plan to appear in the play. Gilbert was unable to complete the play on time and asked for an extension.〔Ainger, p. 117〕 Sothern then left to go on tour in America and wrote to Gilbert to be ready with another play by October, this time to feature him in a serious role.〔Ainger, pp. 119–20〕 That play, ''The Ne'er-do-Weel'', was also late and did not open until 1878.〔Stedman, pp. 137–38〕 Hermann Vezin took the title role in ''Dan'l Druce'' in a cast featuring Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the 19-year-old Marion Terry as Dorothy.〔Ainger, pp. 123–24〕
The title character was originally called Jonas Marple, but Gilbert changed the name to one less closely identifiable with George Eliot's ''Silas Marner'' first to Abel Druce and then to Dan'l Druce.〔Knapp. Gilbert retained the name Jonas Marple for Druce's earlier self before the action of the play〕 He also changed the character's occupation from weaver to blacksmith, and altered Eliot's story to make Druce the true father of the child who is left at his house in place of his stolen gold.〔 Bits of Dan'l Druce would echo in later operas. For instance, one of Reuben's speeches, beginning "I will so coll thee, coax thee, cosset thee, court thee, cajole thee, with deftly turned compliment, pleasant whimsy, delicate jest and tuneful madrigal" has similarities with Jack Point's speech in Act II of ''The Yeomen of the Guard''.〔Stedman, p. 141〕 Elements of the characters of Dorothy and Geoffrey are later seen in Rose Maybud and Richard Dauntless in ''Ruddigore''.〔〔(''Dan'l Druce'' at the G&S Archive )〕 The play ran for 119 performances and enjoyed tours in Britain and America and revivals, achieving reasonable popularity, and even gaining a burlesque parody, ''Dan'l Tra-Duced, Tinker'', by Arthur Clements.〔Stedman, pp. 142–43〕
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