on Shaw's plays, commenting that Shaw drew on "Gilbert's contradictions between the romantic façade of society and its pound-sterling basis" to comic effect in Man and Superman and for a more serious purpose in Widowers' Houses. In a 1968 study, Shaw, Wilde and the Revival of the Comedy of Manners, J. H. K. Lockhart suggests that Shaw similarly drew on Gilbert in Arms and the Man. Other critics have observed that the influence of Engaged extends beyond Shaw to Noël Coward and Joe Orton, and to the Theatre of the Absurd. Notes, references and sources Notes References Sources Books Journals External links Engaged at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Information about the 1925 Broadway production with music by Brian Hooker Posters and images from Engaged Plays by W. S. Gilbert 1877 plays