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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)
Captain ReeceThe Rival CuratesOnly A Dancing GirlGeneral JohnTo A Little Maid - By A PolicemanJohn And FreddySir Guy The CrusaderHauntedThe Bishop And The 'BusmanThe TroubadourFerdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle PiemanLorenzo De LardyDisillusioned - By An Ex-EnthusiastBabette's LoveTo My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)The Folly Of Brown - By A General AgentSir MacklinThe Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell"The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-FooThe Precocious Baby. A Very True TaleTo PhoebeBaines Carew, GentlemanThomas Winterbottom HanceThe Reverend Micah SowlsA Discontented Sugar BrokerThe Pantomime "Super" To His MaskThe Force Of ArgumentThe Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The GoblinThe Phantom Curate. A FableThe Sensation CaptainTempora MutanturAt A Pantomime. By A Bilious OneKing Borria Bungalee BooThe Periwinkle GirlThomson Green And Harriet HaleBob PolterThe Story Of Prince AgibEllen McJones AberdeenPeter The WagBen Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal TumThe Three Kings of ChickerabooJoe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's DaughterTo The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable WretchGentle Alice Brown
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