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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Clinton-Baddeley, V. C. (Victor Clinton), 1900-1970. Burlesque tradition in the English theatre after 1660. London, Methuen [1952] (OCoLC)576142923 Online version: Clinton-Baddeley, V. C. (Victor Clinton), 1900-1970. Burlesque tradition in the English theatre after 1660. London, Methuen [1952] (OCoLC)607900033 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
V C Clinton-Baddeley |
| OCLC Number: | 179520 |
| Description: | xvi, 152 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The nature of burlesque -- The progress of Burlesque -- Travesty and mock-heroic -- The burlesque tradition in the English theatre after 1660. Davenant and Buckingham -- Thomas Duffett -- John Gay -- Henry Fielding -- Henry Carey -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- John Hookham Frere and George Canning -- Thomas Dibdin, Charles Dickens, and the English melodrama -- The Jolly Jack Tar joke -- J.R. Planché -- W.S. Gilbert -- Bernard Shaw -- Stephen Leacock -- Max Beerbohm -- Pantomime and ballet. |
| Responsibility: | by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley. |
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