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Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology

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Description for Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception. Num Pages: 312 pages, 5 bw illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472537867
SKU
V9781472537867
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About Laura Monros-Gaspar
Laura Monros-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 mitologia clasica (2012).

Reviews for Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology
The critical apparatus and notes are invaluable. Monros-Gaspar's wise decision to present clean scripts, each followed by appendices of alternative readings and omitted lines, facilitates enjoyment and study ... [The book is] an invaluable source for scholars and students of nineteenth-century reception and tragic or mythological afterlives, as well as readers in search of (still amusing) classical entertainment.
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