H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor: a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story takes place aboard the British ship H.M.S. Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Trial by Jury: a comic opera in one act, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns a "breach of promise of marriage" lawsuit in which the judge and legal system are the objects of lighthearted satire.