Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) was an English dramatist, librettist and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. Gilbert was born in Strand, London and was educated at Boulogne, France and then at the Great Ealing School and King's College London. He wrote a variety of stories, comic rants, theatre reviews and, under the pseudonym "Bab" (his ...
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- BAB BALLADS AND SAVOY SONGS
- W. H. GILBERT
- CONTENTS.
- THE BAB BALLADS.
- THE YARN OF THE "NANCY BELL."
- CAPTAIN REECE.
- THE BISHOP AND THE BUSMAN.
- THE FOLLY OF BROWN.
- THE THREE KINGS OF CHICKERABOO.
- THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO.
- TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE.
- GENERAL JOHN.
- SIR GUY THE CRUSADER.
- KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO.
- THE TROUBADOUR.
- THE FORCE OF ARGUMENT.
- ONLY A DANCING GIRL.
- THE SENSATION CAPTAIN.
- THE PERIWINKLE GIRL.
- BOB POLTER.
- GENTLE ALICE BROWN.
- BEN ALLAH ACHMET;
- OR, THE FATAL TUM.
- SONGS OF A SAVOYARD
- THE ENGLISHMAN.
- THE DISAGREEABLE MAN.
- THE MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL.
- THE HEAVY DRAGOON.
- ONLY ROSES!
- THEY'LL NONE OF 'EM BE MISSED.
- THE POLICEMAN'S LOT.
- AN APPEAL.
- EHEU FUGACES—!
- A RECIPE.
- THE FIRST LORD'S SONG.
- WHEN A MERRY MAIDEN MARRIES.
- THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE.
- HE AND SHE.
- THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S SONG.
- WILLOW WALY!
- THE USHER'S CHARGE.
- KING GOODHEART.
- THE TANGLED SKEIN.
- GIRL GRADUATES.
- THE APE AND THE LADY.
- SANS SOUCI
- THE BRITISH TAR.
- THE COMING BYE AND BYE.
- THE SORCERER'S SONG.
- SPECULATION.
- THE DUKE OF PLAZA-TORO.
- THE REWARD OF MERIT.
- WHEN I FIRST PUT THIS UNIFORM ON.
- SAID I TO MYSELF, SAID I.
- THE FAMILY FOOL.
- THE PHILOSOPHIC PILL.
- THE CONTEMPLATIVE SENTRY.
- SORRY HER LOT.
- THE JUDGE'S SONG.
- TRUE DIFFIDENCE.
- THE HIGHLY RESPECTABLE GONDOLIER.
- DON'T FORGET.
- THE DARNED MOUNSEER.
- THE HUMANE MIKADO.
- THE HOUSE OF PEERS.
- THE ÆSTHETE.
- PROPER PRIDE.
- THE BAFFLED GRUMBLER.
- THE WORKING MONARCH.
- THE ROVER'S APOLOGY.
- WOULD YOU KNOW?
- THE MAGNET AND THE CHURN.
- BRAID THE RAVEN HAIR.
- IS LIFE A BOON?
- A MIRAGE.
- A MERRY MADRIGAL.
- THE LOVE-SICK BOY.
- HENRY ALTEMUS' PUBLICATIONS.
- PHILADELPHIA. PA.
- DORE'S MASTERPIECES
- ALTEMUS' ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY OF STANDARD AUTHORS.
- ALTEMUS' YOUNG PEOPLES' LIBRARY
- ALTEMUS' DEVOTIONAL SERIES.
- ALTEMUS' ETERNAL LIFE SERIES.
- ALTEMUS BELLES-LETTRES SERIES.
- ALTEMUS' NEW ILLUSTRATED VADEMECUM SERIES.
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