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Patience
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or, Bunthorne's Bride (1881) One of the *Savoy operas by Gilbert and Sullivan. It satirizes the *Aesthetic movement, with the character of Grosvenor said to be based on *Swinburne and that of Bunthorne on Oscar *Wilde – though at the first performance Bunthorne was acted with the appearance and mannerisms of *Whistler.
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