Nin’S Limericks: Odd Odes Concerning the Savoy Operas
By Ian Short
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Why are the Savoy operas funny? Because they were written by a couple of geniuses who knew how to be funny never fall into the trap of assuming that Gilbert was the funny one. Gilbert himself discovered that his words didnt work half so well when set by other composers.
Why are limericks funny? Thats a much more difficult question. Suffice it to say that, if The Lady of Shalot or the Mort d Arthur were written to a metre of 8,8,5,5,8,
people would have roared their ribs out.
The really surprising thing, given that Gilbert used every trick in the book to make his verses funny, is that in the whole canon I can only find one example of a limerick written by Gilbert (double limerick, shameless man)
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Nin’S Limericks - Ian Short
© 2013 by Ian Short. All rights reserved.
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Published by AuthorHouse 01/23/2013
ISBN: 978-1-4817-8122-0 (sc)
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NIN’S LIMERICKS
DENOUIEMENT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to acknowledge my indebtedness to the International Gilbert and Sullivan Association for their part in the publishing of this work, and for giving me a reason to publish it; to Mr. Ian G. Smith, the current chairman of the Association, for coming up with the idea in the first place, to George and Gill Cockroft for proof reading, and to all others who have helped in any way.
image003.jpgNIN’S LIMERICKS
(Odd Odes concerning the Savoy Operas)
On the 8th of August 2012, at the 19th International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Buxton, Ian G. Smith announced that he intended to conduct a limerick competition (Mr. Smith is the executive chairman of the International Gilbert and Sulivan Association, and the author of an acclaimed biography of John Reed).
One or more of the pieces in this volume were entries for that competition, and Mr. Smith will have to take