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• In his later life he rarely quit the transpontine stage.
• Richard Shepherd, who succeeded Alfred Bunn in 1848, remained at the theatre until 1869 and established its reputation for'rough-and-tumble'transpontine melodrama.
• There are also recurring themes of Melbourne culture, especially that of the inner city, in songs such as " Under the Rotunda ", " The Sandringham Line " and " Transpontine ".
• In 1984, Arthur Jacobs rated " Ruddigore " " One of the weaker of Gilbert's librettos, it was seen ( especially after the freshness of invention in " The Mikado " ) to be rather obviously relying on brushed-up ideas . . . . The plot is supposedly a burlesque of what was'transpontine'melodrama . . . . But that brand of melodrama was itself hardly alive enough to be made fun of.