The burlesque tradition in the English theatre after 1660 / by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley/ with thirteen half-tone plates
1973, Reprint Edition. London: Metheun. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #310721
Physical description: xvi, 152 p. illus. 23 cm. Notes: Reprint of the 1952 ed. Bibliography: p. 142. Contents: The nature of burlesque -- The progress of Burlesque -- Travesty and mock-heroic -- The burlesque tradition in the English theatre after 1660. Davenant and Buckingham -- Thomas Duffett -- John Gay -- Henry Fielding -- Henry Carey -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- John Hookham Frere and George Canning -- Thomas Dibdin, Charles Dickens, and the English melodrama -- The Jolly Jack Tar joke -- J.R. Planché -- W.S. Gilbert -- Bernard Shaw -- Stephen Leacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Pantomime and ballet. Subjects: English drama History and criticism. Burlesque (Literature). Burlesque (Theatre) England. Theater Great Britain History. drama in english burlesque, 1660 ca 1920 critical studies. Genre: Bibliography. Burlesques. History. Illustrated.
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