The Bab Ballads

By: W. S. Gilbert, James Ellis (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 April 2003 | Edition Number 1

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W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century.

In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems.

This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation." This collection will delight readers with its irreverence and wit.

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The Bab Ballads of W. S. Gilbert, admirably introduced and annotated by James Ellis, is a real treat. * New Yorker *
Thanks to Mr. Ellis, all the known poems...dress-rehearsals as it were for the operas, are now printed together. And of course they are accompanied by the original Chesterton-delighting illustrations. * Christian Science Monitor *

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Introduction The Bab Ballads
The Advent of Spring
The Cattle Show (Fun)
The Cattle Show (The Comic News)
Sixty-three and Sixty-four
The Dream
The Baron Klopfzetterheim
Down to the Derby
Something Like Nonsense Verses
Ode to My Clothes
The Student
Tempora Mutantur
The Bachelors' Strike
A Bad Night of It
To Phoebe
Ozone
To the Terrestrial Globe
The Monkey in Trouble
Back Again!
To My Absent Husband
Musings in a Music Hall
Pantomimic Presentiments
The Bar and Its Moaning
To Euphrosyne
The Phantom Curate
To a Little Maid
Ferdinando and Elvira; or, The Gentle Pieman
The Pantomime "Super" to His Mask
The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
Monsieur Le Blond on London
Haunted
The Reverend Rawston Wright
The Story of Gentle Archibald
To My Bride
Only a Dancing Girl
To My Steed
King Borria Bungalee Boo
Jack Casts His Shell
How to Write an Irish Drama
General John
Sir Guy the Crusader
Sir Galahad the Golumptious
Disillusioned
John and Freddy
Lorenzo de Lately
The Bishop and the Busman
Babette's Love
Fanny and Jenny
Sir Mackiln
The Troubadour
Ben Allah Achmet; or, The Fatal Turn
The Folly of Brown
Joe Golightly; or, The First Lord's Daughter
The Rival Curates
Thomas Winterbottom Hance
A. and B.; or, The Sensation Twins
Sea-Side Snobs
The Bishop of Rum-ti-Foo
The Precocious Baby
Baines Carew, Gentleman
A Discontented Sugar Broker
The Force of Argument
At a Pantomime
The Three Kings of Chickeraboo
The Periwinkle Girl
Captain Reece
Thomson Green and Harriet Hale
Bob Potter
The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin
Ellen McJones Aberdeen
The Sensation Captain
Trial by Jury
The Reverend Micah Sowls
Peter the Wag
The Story of Prince Agib
Gentle Alice Brown
Pasha Bailey Ben
Blabworth-cum-Talkington
The Sailor Boy to His Lass
Sir Conrad and the Rusty One
The Cunning Woman
The Modest Couple
The "Bandoline" Player
Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo
Boulogne
Brave Alum Bey
Gregory Parable, LL.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare
The Hermit
Annie Protheroe
The Captain and the Mermaids
An Unfortunate Likeness
A Boulogne Table d'Hote
The Railway Guard's Song
"The Undecided Man"
Premonitory Symptoms
Lost Mr. Blake
Little Oliver
What is a Burlesque?
The Phantom Head
The Politest of Nations!
Woman's Gratitude
The Baby's Vengeance
The Two Ogres
Mister William
The Martinet
The King of Canoodle-Dum
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