Victorian classical burlesques : : a critical anthology / / Laura Monros-Gaspar.

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Superior document:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (313 pages) :; illustrations, portraits, facsimiles.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why classical burlesque?
  • Enacting the past and the present
  • The histories of Victorian classical burlesque
  • Texts and contexts
  • Note on the texts and this edition
  • List of representative nineteenth-century classical burlesques
  • Antigone : travestie / Edward L. Blanchard
  • Alcestis, the original strong-minded woman / Francis Talfourd
  • Medea; or, the best of mothers, with a brute of a husband / Robert Brough
  • Electra in a new electric light / Francis Talfourd.