First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue e

"This title was first publihsed in 2003. Burlesque was one of the most reviled - and most appealing - types of theatrical performance in the Victorian age. Wild

This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telema

An annotated critical anthology of four major classical burlesques, exploring the popular, iconic and literary refigurations of classical myths on the Victorian

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, mercile