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burlesqueIn the 17th and 18th centuries, a form of satirical comedy parodying a particular play or dramatic genre. For example, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) is a burlesque of 18th-century opera, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Critic (1777) satirizes the sentimentality in contemporary drama. In the USA from the mid-19th century, ‘burlesque’ referred to a sex-and-comedy show invented by Michael Bennett Leavitt in 1866 with acts including acrobats, singers, and comedians. During the 1920s striptease was introduced in order to counteract the growing popularity of the movies; Gypsy Rose Lee was the most famous stripper. Burlesque was frequently banned in the USA. burlesque
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| The hymn must therefore be later than that date, though Terpander, according to Weir Smyth (16), may have only modified the scale of the lyre; yet while the burlesque character precludes an early date, this feature is far removed, as Allen and Sikes remark, from the silliness of the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice", so that a date in the earlier part of the sixth century is most probable. These sorry figures are made to pass very unheroically through a series of burlesque adventures. Then, if the boy has read a good many other books, he is taken with that abundance of literary turn and allusion in Thackeray; there is hardly a sentence but reminds him that he is in the society of a great literary swell, who has read everything, and can mock or burlesque life right and left from the literature always at his command. |
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