The Bab Ballads is a collection of light verses by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. The book takes its title from Gilbert's childhood nickname. He later began to sign his illustrations "Bab". Gilbert wrote the "ballads" collected in the book before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing these verses Gilbert developed his "topsy-turvy" style in which the humour is 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 recycled in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. They were read aloud at private dinner-parties, at public banquets and even in the House of Lords. The ballads have been much published, and some have been recorded or otherwise adapted.
By : W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
01 - Captain Reece
02 - The Rival Curates
03 - Only A Dancing Girl
04 - General John
05 - To A Little Maid - By A Policeman
06 - John and Freddy
07 - Sir Guy The Crusader
08 - Haunted
09 - The Bishop And The 'Busman
10 - The Troubadour
11 - Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman
12 - Lorenzo De Lardy
13 - Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast
14 - Babette's Love
15 - To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be)
16 - The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent
17 - Sir Macklin
18 - The Yarn Of The Nancy Bell
19 - The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo
20 - The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale
21 - To Phoebe
22 - Baines Carew, Gentleman
23 - Thomas Winterbottom Hance
24 - The Reverend Micah Sowls
25 - A Discontented Sugar Broker
26 - The Pantomime Super to His Mask
27 - The Force Of Argument
28 - The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin
29 - The Phantom Curate. A Fable
30 - The Sensation Captain
31 - Tempora Mutantur
32 - At A Pantomime. By a Bilious One
33 - King Borria Bungalee Boo
34 - The Periwinkle Girl
35 - Thomson Green and Harriet Hale
36 - Bob Polter
37 - The Story Of Prince Agib
38 - Ellen McJones Aberdeen
39 - Peter The Wag
40 - Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum
41 - The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo
42 - Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter
43 - To The Terrestrial Globe. By a Miserable Wretch
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