A Book of Burlesque
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Anthologies, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Willam Davenport Adams | ISBN: | 9786050336245 |
| Publisher: | Willam Davenport Adams | Publication: | November 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Willam Davenport Adams |
| ISBN: | 9786050336245 |
| Publisher: | Willam Davenport Adams |
| Publication: | November 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
