The Bab Ballads: With Which Are Included Songs Of A Savoyard
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A cornerstone of Victorian comic verse, The Bab Ballads: With Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard presents the wickedly inventive poetry of W. S. Gilbert at his most gleefully absurd, collecting the illustrated verses he originally contributed to the magazine Fun throughout the 1860s and 1870s alongside lyrics drawn from his celebrated Savoy Opera collaborations with Arthur Sullivan. With biting wit and a gleefully topsy-turvy logic, Gilbert chronicles the misadventures of pompous admirals, lovelorn maidens, hapless pirates, and morally flexible clergymen, skewering Victorian society's pretensions with every rhyming couplet. The ballads pulse with the same anarchic energy and gift for comic paradox that would later define the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, making them an essential companion piece to works like H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. Readers familiar with the operettas will delight in recognizing the seeds of beloved characters and situations, while newcomers will find an irresistible introduction to one of the nineteenth century's greatest comic minds. Sharp, irreverent, and endlessly quotable, this collection remains a triumph of English humorous literature.
Author: W. S. Gilbert
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Macmillan / St Martin's Press
Genre: Poetry
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A cornerstone of Victorian comic verse, The Bab Ballads: With Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard presents the wickedly inventive poetry of W. S. Gilbert at his most gleefully absurd, collecting the illustrated verses he originally contributed to the magazine Fun throughout the 1860s and 1870s alongside lyrics drawn from his celebrated Savoy Opera collaborations with Arthur Sullivan. With biting wit and a gleefully topsy-turvy logic, Gilbert chronicles the misadventures of pompous admirals, lovelorn maidens, hapless pirates, and morally flexible clergymen, skewering Victorian society's pretensions with every rhyming couplet. The ballads pulse with the same anarchic energy and gift for comic paradox that would later define the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, making them an essential companion piece to works like H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. Readers familiar with the operettas will delight in recognizing the seeds of beloved characters and situations, while newcomers will find an irresistible introduction to one of the nineteenth century's greatest comic minds. Sharp, irreverent, and endlessly quotable, this collection remains a triumph of English humorous literature.