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Richard Gurney [1812], Romeo and Juliet travesty. In three acts (Published by T. Hookham, Junr. and E. T. Hookham... and J. M. Richardson [etc.], London) [word count] [S39800]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 Gurney's travesty of the Garrick version of ROMEO AND JULIET then in use in the theatres was the first of many imitations of Poole's successful HAMLET TRAVESTIE. As far as is known it was never acted; it is perhaps most remarkable for its preface's solemn justification of burlesque as an antidote to the otherwise dangerous effects of high tragedy.
Note return to page 2 *Cecco d'Ascoli, a learned Italian of Florence, was publickly burnt, for having presumed to write parodies on the Inferno of Dante. VIDE MEMOIRES DE PETRARQUE.
Note return to page 3 *Vide. The well-known effect of the “Robbers” of Schiller upon the Students at Gottingen. The “Orestes” of Etherington, is mentioned as having driven one of the Musicians in the Theatre mad.—See the still more distressing particulars, in Cooke's life of Foote. Also—the note relative to Don Juan, in Cunningham's “World without Souls.”
Richard Gurney [1812], Romeo and Juliet travesty. In three acts (Published by T. Hookham, Junr. and E. T. Hookham... and J. M. Richardson [etc.], London) [word count] [S39800]. |
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