 Burlesques of this period featured actresses "en travesti" in tights or in dresses as short as possible without provoking the legal authorities.Gilbert later turned against this practice, and in his Savoy Operas no characters were played by members of the opposite sex.Gilbert's four earlier operatic burlesques, "Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack" (1866), "La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps!"