The target of Gilbert’s humour in ‘Patience’ is the excesses of the aesthetic movement which flourished in England between 1870 and the mid 1880’5. Originally the movement, led by William Morris, was a totally welcome and healthy reaction to Victorian ugliness. But soon, as with other more recent artistic movements it acquired its cult figures, mindless apostles, devotees and poseurs and what had been a creative force became a cultural fad.

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