Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. - Summary by Wikipedia

Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by DL David Lawrence
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Play 02 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by EBS Esther ben Simonides
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Play 03 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by EL Newgatenovelist
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Play 04 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by IK Ian King
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Play 05 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett
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Play 06 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by LLW Leonard Wilson
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Play 07 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by MAS MaryAnn
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Play 08 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by MSD Matthew Datcher
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Play 09 Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by TP Tomas Peter
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