Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

"Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities" is a humorous ballad written by W. S. Gilbert, a renowned English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator. Gilbert is best known for his collaboration with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan in creating the popular Savoy operas. Additionally, he wrote the Bab Ballads, a collection of light verse accompanied by his own amusing illustrations. Gilbert's creative repertoire encompassed a wide range of works, including over 75 plays, libretti, stories, poems, and lyrics, both comical and serious in nature. His plays, characterized by a realistic style of stage direction, served as an inspiration for other notable dramatists such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.