Gilbert & Sullivan Bab Collection - Iolanthe

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  • File Name: iol_blue.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: Member of the House of Lords admonishing Patience who has her back turned on him
  • Associated line: Spur not the nobly born With love affected,
  • File Name: iol_dove.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: Fairy Queen on her knees to Private Willis
  • Associated line: Queen: {To Fairies] Not there is a man whose physical attributes are simply godlike.
  • File Name: iol_dust.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: Lord Chancellor throwing dust in a juryman's eyes
  • Associated line: I'll never throw dust in a juryman's eyes (Said I to myself - said I),
  • File Name: iol_exas.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: A young couple walking away with their arms around each other while the Lord Chancellor gathers up his robes and walks away
  • Associated line: Which is exasperating for A highly susceptible Chancellor!
  • File Name: iol_hose.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: Captain Shaw using a fire hose to quench a Fairy who is blowing the water back
  • Associated line: Oh, Captain Shaw! Type of true love kept under! Could thy Brigade With cold cascade Quench my great love, I wonder!
  • File Name: iol_king.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: A Peer sitting in the stocks
  • Associated line: The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well:
  • File Name: iol_post.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: The poster art for The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company's 1992 performance of Iolanthe
  • Associated line:
  • File Name: iol_root.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: A good spademan watering a small trademan whose has been planted add whose boots have been taken off with a boot-tree
  • Associated line: You get a good spademan to plant a small trademan (first take off his boots with a boot-tree),
  • File Name: iol_ward.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: The Lord Chancellor dancing with two young ladies
  • Associated line: For I'm not so old, and not so plain, And I'm quite prepared to marry again,
  • File Name: iol_well.gif
  • Show: Iolanthe
  • Description: Wellington standing over Boneaparte ready to thrash him
  • Associated line: When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell,

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