Author: W. S. Gilbert
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
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."
The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard
Author: W. S. Gilbert
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
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."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
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."
Songs of a Savoyard
Author: William Schwenck Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature. 3. 1800 - 1900
Author: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
W.S. Gilbert. (Stars of the stage).
Author: Edith A. Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettists
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librettists
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
W.S. Gilbert
Author: Sidney Dark
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!
Author: Philip H. Dillard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810824454
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810824454
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.