The Bab Ballads
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 edi…
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Weitere Autoren: Ellis, James (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-674-05801-9
- EAN: 9780674058019
- Produktnummer: 9033399
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H24.8 cm x B18.1 cm x D0.0 cm 712 g
- Abbildungen: 355 line illustrations
- Gewicht: 712
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
James Ellis has been directing and performing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for almost fifty years. He was for many years Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.
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