A Book of Burlesque

Descrizione prodotto

In the pages that follow, I make no attempt to supply a consecutive and comprehensive history of English stage travestie. This would have been impossible within the limits assigned to me. My object has been simply to furnish an introduction to such a history, supplemented by sketches of the various groups into which English stage burlesques naturally fall, with such extracts as might serve to exhibit the respective methods of individual travestie-writers. My business has been with the literary rather than the histrionic side of burlesque—with the witty and humorous, rather than the purely theatrical, features of the subject with which I had to deal. At the same time, I hope that the details I have been able to give concerning dates, and ‘casts,’ and so on, may be useful to at least a large section of my readers.

Titolo: A Book of Burlesque
Autore: Willam Davenport Adams;
Editore: Willam Davenport Adams
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ISBN: 9786050336245