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H.M.S. Parliament

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{{Orphan|date=March 2016}}{{EngvarB|date=October 2013}}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}}{{italic title}}H.M.S. Parliament, also titled The Lady Who Loved A Government Clerk, is a comic operetta. Published in 1880, it adapted the music of H.M.S. Pinafore by Arthur Sullivan to a new libretto by William H. Fuller (who was also the librettist for The Unspecific Scandal). The work satirised contemporary Canadian politics,^[1] particularly the perceived corruption of Sir John A Macdonald and his government.^[2] It was written as a "piece of extravagance" for performance by the Eugene McDowell Comedy Company, an American-led touring group active from 1875 to 1890.^[3] The foreword suggested that the show existed only "for the fun of things" rather than any "political proclivities".^[4]

The characters are largely similar to those of HMS Pinafore: Captain Corcoran is rewritten as Captain McA (John A. Macdonald); Dick Deadeye becomes Alexander MacDeadeye (Alexander Mackenzie, Canada's second prime minister); Sir Joseph Porter is renamed Sir Samuel Sillery (Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, finance minister); and the couple Josephine and Ralph are presented as Angelina and Sam Snifter.^[4] The new libretto too is loosely based on the original: for example, where Pinafore opens "We sail the ocean blue / and our saucy ship's a beauty", Parliament begins "We sail the ship of state / tho' our craft is rather leaky".^[4]^[5]

H.M.S. Parliament opened in Montreal at the Academy of Music on 16 February 1880.^[6] The work was positively received by initial audiences, and its planned run became a multi-city tour spanning 30 communities over five months.^[1]^[4] After that tour finished, political events had made the satire out-of-date, so no further performances were done. The piece re-emerged when its book and lyrics were included in a volume of Canada's Lost Plays in 1978; a few attempts at revival were made shortly afterwards, including at least two full productions. A director of one such revival noted that "Fuller's sparkling wit remains the main preserving spice...[which] spares the operetta from the worst excesses of Victorian sentiment and patriotism".^[4]

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1. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/hms-parliament|accessdate=11 October 2013|work=Canadian Encyclopedia|title=H.M.S. Parliament}}
2. ^{{cite book|author1=Watermeier, Daniel |author2=Londré, Felicia |title=The history of North American theater: the United States, Canada, and Mexico, from pre-Columbian times to the present|year=2000|publisher=Continuum|isbn=9780826412331|page=257}}
3. ^{{cite book|editors=Wagner, Anton; Plant, Richard|title=Canada's Lost Plays, Vol. 1: The Nineteenth Century|publisher=CTR Publications|year=1978|page=159}}
4. ^¹²{{cite journal|url=http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7434/8493|volume=6|issue=1|year=1985|author=Day, Moira|journal=Theatre Research in Canada|title=Forum}}
5. ^Libretto for H.M.S. Pinafore at Wikisource
6. ^¹²{{cite book|last=Atkey|first=Mel|title=Broadway north: the dream of a Canadian musical theatre|year=2008|publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=9781554881086|pages=33–34}}

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