The Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert
Lu par Graham Redman
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) (3 hr 1 min)
Chapitres
| Captain Reece | 4:55 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Rival Curates | 4:07 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Only A Dancing Girl | 2:29 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| General John | 2:55 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| To A Little Maid - By A Policeman | 1:32 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| John And Freddy | 3:36 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Sir Guy The Crusader | 3:00 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Haunted | 3:51 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Bishop And The 'Busman | 3:56 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Troubadour | 4:14 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman | 5:24 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Lorenzo De Lardy | 4:20 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast | 3:02 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Babette's Love | 4:28 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be) | 3:09 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent | 4:25 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Sir Macklin | 4:04 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" | 4:54 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo | 4:40 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale | 4:08 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| To Phoebe | 1:13 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Baines Carew, Gentleman | 4:45 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Thomas Winterbottom Hance | 4:49 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Reverend Micah Sowls | 4:18 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| A Discontented Sugar Broker | 5:14 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask | 3:11 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Force Of Argument | 4:32 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin | 4:45 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Phantom Curate. A Fable | 4:24 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Sensation Captain | 5:00 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Tempora Mutantur | 2:53 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One | 4:07 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| King Borria Bungalee Boo | 5:11 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Periwinkle Girl | 4:02 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Thomson Green And Harriet Hale | 3:53 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Bob Polter | 5:14 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Story Of Prince Agib | 4:41 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Ellen McJones Aberdeen | 5:40 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Peter The Wag | 5:03 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum | 4:37 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| The Three Kings of Chickeraboo | 4:18 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter | 4:45 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch | 1:28 | Lu par Graham Redman |
| Gentle Alice Brown | 6:12 | Lu par Graham Redman |