The "Bab" Ballads
Author | : William Schwenck Gilbert |
Publisher | : London : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : William Schwenck Gilbert |
Publisher | : London : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Schwenck Gilbert |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : William Schwenck Gilbert |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : William Schwenck Gilbert |
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Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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Author | : W. S. Gilbert |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781804470664 |
"What?" said the reverend gent, "Dance through my hours of leisure? Smoke? Bathe myself with scent? Play croquet? Oh, with pleasure!"' Today W.S. Gilbert is best known for the comic operas he produced in collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, but another of his great - and numerous - literary contributions were his humorous ballads, written and illustrated under the pseudonym 'Bab'. Combining his trademark absurdist wit with keenly observed character studies, the ballads are a satirical tour de force that lambast society figures. This new selection, chosen and introduced by Andrew Crowther, Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society, brings together the very best of the ballads and presents the 'Bab' works for a new readership.
Author | : W. S. Gilbert |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2022-06-03 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : |
The Bab Ballads is an incredible collection of light verses by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. This amusing book gets its title from Gilbert's childhood name, "Bab," meaning a baby. In composing these verses, Gilbert formed his "topsy-turvy" style in which the humor is obtained by setting up a hilarious assumption and working out its logical results, however ridiculous. The Ballads also demonstrate Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humor. These ballads became famous on their own and were a basis for plot elements, characters, and songs that Gilbert recycled in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. People used to read them aloud at private parties, public feasts, and even in the House of Lords. Gilbert did not start calling the collection The Bab Ballads until the first collection was published in 1869. After that, his new verses in his Fun collection were captioned "The Bab Ballads."
Author | : W. S. Gilbert |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2017-08-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781975739478 |
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".
Author | : Jane W. Stedman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780198161745 |
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was the most brilliant dramatist of Victorian England. A daring and cynical playwright, the forerunner of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, he was also a prolific journalist and humorous poet (his Bab Ballads are still widely read), and he achieved worldwide fame through his long collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, a collaboration that created such classics as H. M. S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and all the other Savoy operas. Now the story of this remarkable writer's life - and of his stormy relationship with Sullivan - is here chronicled by a renowned authority on Gilbert and on the theatrical and literary scene in Victorian London. For this biography, Jane W. Stedman has returned to original sources, has interviewed survivors, and has scoured a whole variety of Victorian periodicals for reviews, and personal comment. Gilbert emerges as a much more complex and interesting figure than has previously been thought. The book is a worthy companion piece to Arthur Jacobs's recent biography Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician.