Albert and the Lion
The best-known comic monologue by Marriott Edgar
This article from the Yorkshire Times has the text and some interesting comments about the place of the monologue in 1930s British culture.
Why the lion is named Wallace.
More about other comic monologues on my website, and how I began to perform them.
Abaht them ‘ere monologues lists all of Marriott Edgar’s poems with links to their texts, plus a few by other authors.
Here is a rare clip of Marriott Edgar performing Albert and the Lion.
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Permission to tell outlines my views on copyright
For those who are teachers: Telling stories in the classroom: basing language teaching on storytelling