Bab BalladsW. S. Gilbert
Bab Ballads
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)
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44 capítulos
3 h 1 min
- 1 Captain Reece4:55
- 2 The Rival Curates4:07
- 3 Only A Dancing Girl2:29
- 4 General John2:55
- 5 To A Little Maid - By A Policeman1:32
- 6 John And Freddy3:36
- 7 Sir Guy The Crusader3:00
- 8 Haunted3:51
- 9 The Bishop And The 'Busman3:56
- 10 The Troubadour4:14
- 11 Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman5:24
- 12 Lorenzo De Lardy4:20
- 13 Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast3:02
- 14 Babette's Love4:28
- 15 To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)3:09
- 16 The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent4:25
- 17 Sir Macklin4:04
- 18 The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell"4:54
- 19 The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo4:40
- 20 The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale4:08
- 21 To Phoebe1:13
- 22 Baines Carew, Gentleman4:45
- 23 Thomas Winterbottom Hance4:49
- 24 The Reverend Micah Sowls4:18
- 25 A Discontented Sugar Broker5:14
- 26 The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask3:11
- 27 The Force Of Argument4:32
- 28 The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin4:45
- 29 The Phantom Curate. A Fable4:24
- 30 The Sensation Captain5:00
- 31 Tempora Mutantur2:53
- 32 At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One4:07
- 33 King Borria Bungalee Boo5:11
- 34 The Periwinkle Girl4:02
- 35 Thomson Green And Harriet Hale3:53
- 36 Bob Polter5:14
- 37 The Story Of Prince Agib4:41
- 38 Ellen McJones Aberdeen5:40
- 39 Peter The Wag5:03
- 40 Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum4:37
- 41 The Three Kings of Chickeraboo4:18
- 42 Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter4:45
- 43 To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch1:28
- 44 Gentle Alice Brown6:12
