A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody

by William Davenport Adams

  CONTENTS.

  PAGE

  I. THE BEGINNINGS OF BURLESQUE 1

  II. THE "PALMY" DAYS 33

  III. "CLASSICAL" BURLESQUE 44

  IV. BURLESQUE OF FAERIE 72

  V. BURLESQUE OF HISTORY 99

  VI. BURLESQUE OF SHAKESPEARE 121

  VII. BURLESQUE OF MODERN DRAMA 146

  VIII. BURLESQUE OF OPERA 174

  IX. BURLESQUE OF FICTION AND SONG 193

  X. THE NEW BURLESQUE 207

  A BOOK OF BURLESQUE.