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Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan that premiered in 1881. It satirizes the aesthetic movement of the 1870s and 1880s in England, and in particular the poet Oscar Wilde and the aesthetic craze he inspired. The story concerns two rival aesthetic poets and their romantic entanglements with the lovesick maidens of the castle and the regiment of dragoons.