 The success of these plays gave Gilbert a prestige that would be crucial to his later collaboration with as respected a musician as Sullivan.1874 was a busy year for Gilbert.He illustrated "The Piccadilly Annual"; supervised a revival of "Pygmalion and Galatea"; and, besides "Sweethearts", he wrote "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern", a parody of "Hamlet"; "Charity", a play about the redemption of a fallen woman; a dramatisation of "Ought We to Visit Her?"