Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
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.
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