Victorian Classical Burlesques
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-3785-0 (ISBN)
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 (1850) and Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) by Francis Talfourd. The cultural and textual annotations highlight the changes made to the scripts from the manuscripts sent to the Lord Chamberlain’s office and, by explaining the topical allusions and satire, elucidate elements of the burlesques' popular cultural milieu.
An in-depth critical introduction discusses the historical contexts of the plays' premieres and unveils the cultural processes behind the reception of the myths and original tragedies. As the burlesques combined spectacular effects with allusions to contemporary affairs, ambivalent and provocative attitudes to women, the plays represent an essential tool for reading the social history of the era.
Laura Monrós-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 mitología clásica (2012).
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Acknowledgements
1. Why Classical burlesque?
1.1. Enacting the past and the present
1.2. Texts and Contexts
1.3. Note on the texts and this edition
1.4. List of Representative Nineteenth-Century Classical Burlesques
2. Antigone Travestie, Edward Litt Leman Blanchard (1845)
3. Alcestis; or the Original Strong-Minded Woman, Francis Talfourd (1850)
4. Medea; or the Best of Mothers with a Brute of a Husband, Robert Brough (1856)
5. Electra in a New Electric Light, Francis Talfourd (1859)
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception |
Zusatzinfo | 5 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 617 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4725-3785-8 / 1472537858 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-3785-0 / 9781472537850 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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