William Brough (writer)

As a dramatist, he wrote some of the earliest German Reed Entertainments, as well as Victorian burlesques, farces and other pieces.

These included Pygmalion; or, The Statue Fair and The Gnome King (1868) at the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre.

In partnership with Andrew Halliday he wrote the Pretty Horsebreaker, the Census, the Area Belle, and several other farces.

[3] They consisted of Holly Lodge and The Enraged Musician (both written with his brother Robert and staged by the German Reeds at St. Martin's Hall before being revived at the Gallery of Illustration),[4] A Month from Home (1857),[5] My Unfinished Opera (1857),[5] Our Home Circuit (1859),[6] Seaside Studies (1861),[7] The Rival Composers (1861),[8] The Bard and his Birthday (1864),[9] and A Peculiar Family (1865).

[10] With Madge Robinson and Samuel Phelps, he toured the provinces, stopping in 1866 at the Theatre Royal, Hull.