Burlesque Plays and Poems
Burlesque Plays and Poems

Burlesque Plays and Poems

Burlesque Plays and Poems The word Burlesque came to us through the French from the Italian "burlesco";...
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Burlesque Plays and Poems

Burlesque Plays and Poems

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Burlesque Plays and Poems

Burlesque Plays and Poems

$105.33 $52.64
Author: Morley, Henry,1822-1894
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Burlesque Plays and Poems

The word Burlesque came to us through the French from the Italian "burlesco"; "burla" being mockery or raillery, and implying always an object. Burlesque must, burlarsi di uno, mock at somebody or something, and when intended to give pleasure it is nothing if not good-natured. One etymologist associates the word with the old English "bourd," a jest; the Gaelic "burd," he says, means mockery, and "buirleadh," is language of ridicule. Yes, and "burrail" is the loud romping of children, and "burrall" is weeping and wailing in a deep-toned howl. Another etymologist takes the Italian "burla," waggery or banter, as diminutive from the Latin "burra," which means a rough hair, but is used by Ausonius in the sense of a jest. That etymology no doubt fits burlesque to a hair, but, like Launce's sweetheart, it may have more hair than wit. The first burlesque in this volumeChaucer's "Rime of Sir Thopas," written towards the close of the fourteenth centuryis a jest upon long-winded story-tellers, who expatiate on insignificant detail; for in his day there were many metrical romances written by the ancestors of Mrs. Nickleby. Riding to Canterbury with the other pilgrims, Chaucer good-humouredly takes to himself the part of the companion who jogs along with even flow of words, luxuriating in all trivial detail until he brings Sir Thopas face to face with an adventure, for he meets a giant with three heads. But even then there is the adventure to be waited for. The story-teller finds that he must trot his knight back home to fetch his armour, and when he "is comen again to toune," it takes so many words to get him his supper, get his armour on, and trot him out again, that the inevitable end comes, with rude intrusion of some faint-hearted lording who has not courage to listen until the point of the story can be descried from afar. So the best of the old story-tellers, in a book full of examples of tales told as they should be, burlesqued misuse of his art, and the "Rime of Sir Thopas" became a warning buoy over the shallows. "I cannot," said Sir Thomas Wyatt, in Henry VIII.'s reign, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53606
Author: Morley, Henry
Release Date: Nov 26, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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