Bab Ballads

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Poetry, Humorous Fiction, Ballads

Authors: W. S. Gilbert In Year : 1868

Book Language: English

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Captain Reece
The Rival Curates
Only A Dancing Girl
General John
To A Little Maid - By A Policeman
John And Freddy
Sir Guy The Crusader
Haunted
The Bishop And The 'Busman
The Troubadour
Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman
Lorenzo De Lardy
Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast
Babette's Love
To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)
The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent
Sir Macklin
The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell"
The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo
The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale
To Phoebe
Baines Carew, Gentleman
Thomas Winterbottom Hance
The Reverend Micah Sowls
A Discontented Sugar Broker
The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask
The Force Of Argument
The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin
The Phantom Curate. A Fable
The Sensation Captain
Tempora Mutantur
At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One
King Borria Bungalee Boo
The Periwinkle Girl
Thomson Green And Harriet Hale
Bob Polter
The Story Of Prince Agib
Ellen McJones Aberdeen
Peter The Wag
Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum
The Three Kings of Chickeraboo
Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter
To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch
Gentle Alice Brown

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations "Bab". (summary from Wikipedia) e-text with illustrations