Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) - Hardcover
The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal. Immensely popular in its day, the genre was also intensely metatheatrical and carries significance for reception studies, the role and perception of women in Victorian society and the culture of artistic censorship. This anthology contains the annotated text of four major classical burlesques: Antigone Travestie (1845) by Edward L. Blanchard, Medea; or, the Best of Mothers with a Brute of a Husband (1856) by Robert Brough, Alcestis; the Original Strong-Minded Woman (1850) and Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) by Francis Talfourd. The cultural and textual annotations highlight the changes made to the scripts from the manuscripts sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office and, by explaining the topical allusions and satire, elucidate elements of the burlesques' popular cultural milieu. An in-depth cr
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An annotated critical anthology of four major classical burlesques, exploring the popular, iconic and literary refigurations of classical myths on the Victorian popular stage.
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Laura Monrós-Gaspar is lecturer at the University of Valencia, Spain. Her publications include Cassandra the Fortune-Teller: Prophets, Gipsies and Victorian Burlesque (2011), Casandra de Florence Nightingale (2011), Nineteenth-century Literature: A Reader (2012) and Persiguiendo a Safo: escritoras victorianas y mitología clásica (2012).
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2015
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