Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660

• Part 1: Introductory 1. The Nature of Burlesque 2. The Progress of Burlesque 3. Travesty and Mock-Heroic Part 2: The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660 3. Davenant and Buckingham 4. Thomas Duffett 5. John Gay 6. Henry Fielding 7. Henry Carey 8. Richard Brinsley Sheridan 9. John Hookham Frere and George Canning, Thomas Dibdin, Charles Dickens and the English Melodrama 10. The Jolly Jack Tar Joke 11. J. R. Planché12. W. S. Gilbert 13. Bernard Shaw 14. Stephen Leacock 15. Max Beerbohm 16. Pantomime and Ballet.

Original Review of The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660: ‘The book is well-written as well as scholarly…’ Claude L. Shaver, Educational Theatre Journal, Vol 5, No. 4 (1953).