Richard Moore is a graduate of Cambridge University with a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature. Recently he retired from university lecturing while continuing with his first love of creative and critical writing.Richard has written nearly a hundred straight plays and even more scripts for music-drama. He has had two previous books published - both about theatre comedy. His hope is that the present one may generate a kind of mini-series, centred on Gilbert but also covering Western comedy theatre generally. Richard's most recent works combine the up-to-date with the nostalgically reminiscent. One is a farce for music, The 'Covideon', offering a comedy treatment of a pandemic set in Ancient Greece where the affliction is the result of a curse from an offended Trump-like Dionysus. Another is a satirical piece called 'Vasputin'. A third takes the play 'Seven Keys to Baldpate' and turns it into a cross between Gilbert and Sullivan and Offenbach. Richard's other interests are music (especially Italian opera, choral music and ragtime), ecology and nature conservation.As for ambitions, he is currently seeking a composer for a libretto based on Gilbert's 'Foggerty's Fairy'. Gilbert, it seems, always hovers on the margins of his life, though there are plenty of other writers sharing his wide-ranging allegiances.