Burlesques

Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317242376

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Victorian Theatrical Burlesques by Richard Schoch Pdf

First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatrical tradition, this critical edition - the first to focus on Victorian burlesques of Victorian plays - represents a valuable scholarly tool for students and scholars of modern drama, theatre history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. Victorian Theatrical Burlesques includes a 'state-of-the-art' introduction which provides a general overview of theatrical burlesques in the Victorian era, emphasising performance history. Sustained reference is made to burlesques other than those presented in the anthology. Through its general introduction, prefaces and annotations to individual plays, checklist of burlesque plays, and bibliography, the unique volume allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to see Victorian burlesques as a rich historical record of shifting attitudes toward drama and the theatre.

Author : Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350027183

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Victorian Epic Burlesques by Rachel Bryant Davies Pdf

This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planché (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865). Beloved legend, archaeological riddle and educational staple: Homer's epic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath were vividly reimagined in nineteenth-century Britain. Classical burlesques-exceptionally successful theatrical entertainments-continually mined the Iliad and Odyssey to lucrative comic effect. Burlesques combined song, dance and slapstick comedy with an eclectic kaleidoscope of topical allusions. From namedropping boxing legends to recasting Shakespearean combats, epic adaptations overflow with satirical commentary on politics, cultural highlights and everyday current affairs. In uncovering Homer's irreverently playful afterlife, this selection showcases burlesque's development and wide appeal. The critical introduction analyses how these plays contested the accessibility of classical antiquity and dramatic performance. Textual and literary annotations, with contemporary illustrations, illuminate the juxtaposed sources to establish these repackaged epics as indispensable tools for unlocking nineteenth-century social, cultural and political history. Resources for further study are available online.

Author : Laura Monros-Gaspar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472537881

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Victorian Classical Burlesques by Laura Monros-Gaspar Pdf

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship. This anthology contains the annotated text of four major classical burlesques: Antigone Travestie (1845) by Edward L. Blanchard, Medea; or, the Best of Mothers with a Brute of a Husband (1856) by Robert Brough, Alcestis; the Original Strong-Minded Woman (1850) and Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) by Francis Talfourd. The cultural and textual annotations highlight the changes made to the scripts from the manuscripts sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office and, by explaining the topical allusions and satire, elucidate elements of the burlesques' popular cultural milieu. An in-depth critical introduction discusses the historical contexts of the plays' premieres and unveils the cultural processes behind the reception of the myths and original tragedies. As the burlesques combined spectacular effects with allusions to contemporary affairs, ambivalent and provocative attitudes to women, the plays represent an essential tool for reading the social history of the era.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520905009

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Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques by Mark Twain Pdf

From the Introduction:It should always be with some misgivings that an editor presents to the public materials which an author has discarded. By returning the materials to his files, the author has voted against publication. By resurrecting them, the editor risks exposing the author to the adverse criticism which he wished to avoid. But, at the same time, the resurrection serves a valuable purpose by making available indispensable evidence to be used by those seeking to understand the creative process. It is because they serve such a purpose that the texts published in this volume have been salvaged from Mark Twain's files. Indeed, they are doubly valuable because they aid in dispelling a myth about his own creative process which Twain himself did much to establish. In several instances Twain gave the impression that for him plotting a novel was a rather simple affair. . . . But in actuality, as the texts published in this volume illustrate, he experienced much more trouble than this statement would suggest in delimiting his fictional world, establishing its nature, and maintaining control over the characters placed therin.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074795728

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Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : John D. Jump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351630658

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Burlesque by John D. Jump Pdf

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful introduction to burlesque literature, a term used by critics from the seventh-century onwards to describe work in which an incongruity between serious subject-matter and style is used to provoke laughter. It examines the four main types of burlesque writing: Travesty, Hudibrastic, Parody and the Mock-Poem, as well as dramatic burlesques.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Burlesques
ISBN : UCSC:32106006461534

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Nineteenth-century Shakespeare Burlesques by Stanley Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006981786

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Nineteenth-century Shakespeare Burlesques: The fourth phase: F. C. Burnand, W. S. Gilbert and others (1860-1882) by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112014162066

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The Works of Thackeray: Burlesques from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Juvenilia by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : Henry E. Jacobs,Claudia D. Johnson,Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015033287239

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An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties by Henry E. Jacobs,Claudia D. Johnson,Claudia Durst Johnson Pdf

Author : Ettore Rella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Burlesque (Theater)
ISBN : OSU:32435066475617

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A History of Burlesque by Ettore Rella Pdf

Author : Helena Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198796770

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The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-century French Culture by Helena Taylor Pdf

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.

Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin,Downing A. Thomas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754650987

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Operatic Migrations by Roberta Montemorra Marvin,Downing A. Thomas Pdf

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying a wide range of subjects associated with the creation, performance and reception of 'opera' in varying social and historical contexts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Each essay attends to migrations between genres, cultures, literary and musical works, modes of expression, media of presentation and aesthetics. Although the directions the contributions take are diverse, they converge in significant ways, particularly with the rebuttal of the notion of the singular nature of the operatic work. The volume strongly asserts that works are meaningfully transformed by the manifold circumstances of their creation and reception, and that these circumstances have an impact on the life of those works in their many transformations and on a given audience's experience of them. migration into operatic genre; works that move across geographical and social boundaries into different cultural contexts; movements between media and/or genre as well as alterations through interpretation and performance of the composer's creation; the translation of spoken theatre to lyric theatre; the theoretical issues contingent on the rendering of 'speech' into 'song'; and the resultant effects of aesthetic considerations as they bear on opera. Crossing over disciplinary boundaries between music, literary studies, history, cultural studies and art history, the volume enriches our knowledge and understanding of the various intersections associated with opera. The book will therefore appeal to those working in the field of music, literary and cultural studies, and to those with a particular interest in opera and musical theatre.

Author : Peter Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009121361

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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Reed Pdf

American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.

Author : STAGE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026206420

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The Stage of 1871: a Review of Plays and Players. By Hawk's-Eye, Etc. First Series by STAGE. Pdf