The Bab Ballads W S Gilbert 9781115613965 Books
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
The Bab Ballads W S Gilbert 9781115613965 Books
Amazon asks me: "How would you describe the plot of this book?" Well... it's a collection of light verse! Let's be merry, and say it has "some twists" :) In a more serious way -which isn't the best way to talk about about light verse, I'm afraid- I could say that I've finally found the English counterpart of the late -recently late- Dutch light verse genius Drs. P, which is bad news for those who don't understand Dutch. But nobody's perfect, and Gilbert' s Bab Ballads aren't either, by the way. But I prefer them over Lewis Carroll's, a bit too absurd for a non-Briton like yours truly. Most important: this -I'm talkin about James Ellis'- edition is by far the best possible on this planet: skip the others if you're *really* interested in the pre-Savoy Opera Gilbert. It's the quality of the edition that is responsible for my fifth star, by the way. Buy, receive, sit back, enjoy!Product details
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The Bab Ballads W S Gilbert 9781115613965 Books Reviews
I hereby take a stab
At reviewing dear old Bab
(Who is Gilbert sans the music of Sir Arthur)
They maintain a meter clever
The best topsy-turvy ever
(It is wond'rous. Buy one for your
Cousin Martha!)
William S. Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) was a master craftsman of the English language. He was renowned as a poet, playwrite and author long before his association with Sir Arthur Sullivan of musical renown. The "Babb Ballads" show the crafstman at his best with sparkling rhymes and funny stories. If you truly love the English language and the skill with which it can be used to amuse and entertain, this book is one that you should not be without.
Bab Ballads contains many of the poems that William Scwenck Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan) wrote for the magazine "Fun." They are very funny and I suggest you buy this book
of many of the ideas used in the Savoy Operas, the Ballads are a delight in their own right. A must for any Gilbert lover.
W.S. Gilbert was the master of the perfect phrase, the sly aside, the cutting quip. Jim Broadbent is the actor who portrayed Gilbert to perfection in the film "Topsy-Turvy." Now Broadbent brings his smooth delivery to these colorful ballads, some of which can be recognized as the inspiration for Gilbert & Sullivan's most popular operas. If you have even the slightest appreciation for G&S, buy this and learn why so many of us love them so. If you're as much of a fan as I am already, you *OWE* it to yourself to get the Broadbent Bab Ballads. Click on BUY NOW and run, don't walk, to the checkout. And be prepared for ecstatic rapture and unmingled joy.
Actually, they practically are read by Gilbert himself, since actor Jim Broadbent will for a long time be associated with that role. His readings are marvelous, especially because he manages to use a different voice for each new character--and there are many, many of them. It is fascinating to catch so many of the concepts Gilbert was to recycle in the later Savoy works. "The Bumboat Woman's Story" is rich in pre-hints of "HMS Pinafore" and was indeed the inspiration for the ballet "Pineapple Poll," which uses only Sullivan's music for the operettas (with a snatch of his Da Ballo Overture thrown in). Doubtless the funniest of the lot is "Etiquette" on the last side of the second tape in which two men thrown up on a dessert island cannot converse because they had not been properly introduced aboard the ill-fated vessel. Not all the poems are comical-- some are darkly pessimistic--but there is many a laugh that will educed by Broadbent's delivery.
"Bab," by the way, was Gilbert's baby nickname; and his use of it tells us a lot about his personality.
Dove Audio, however, has packaged these two cassettes with no table of contents at all; and so there is no way to tell ahead of time exactly what Bab Ballads are recorded, which is really an intolerable situation for an item like this. Also the use of "unabridged" at the top of this page is misleading. While each poem is in fact complete, there are represented here only a very small portion of Gilbert's BB output. What we do have is excellently done, but the 3 hours on these tapes do not hold an "unabridged" collection by any means.
asks me "How would you describe the plot of this book?" Well... it's a collection of light verse! Let's be merry, and say it has "some twists" ) In a more serious way -which isn't the best way to talk about about light verse, I'm afraid- I could say that I've finally found the English counterpart of the late -recently late- Dutch light verse genius Drs. P, which is bad news for those who don't understand Dutch. But nobody's perfect, and Gilbert' s Bab Ballads aren't either, by the way. But I prefer them over Lewis Carroll's, a bit too absurd for a non-Briton like yours truly. Most important this -I'm talkin about James Ellis'- edition is by far the best possible on this planet skip the others if you're *really* interested in the pre-Savoy Opera Gilbert. It's the quality of the edition that is responsible for my fifth star, by the way. Buy, receive, sit back, enjoy!
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