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F. C. Burnand [1866], A Grand New and Original Burlesque, entitled Antony and Cleopatra; or, his-tory and her-story in a modern nilo-metre. By F. C. Burnand, Esq (Strand printing and publishing company [etc.], London) [word count] [S39400]. 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 Burnand's late and unusually elegant specimen of Victorian burlesque, performed at the Haymarket theatre in 1866, incorporates travesties of well-known passages from other Shakespeare plays as well as ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, which was at the time comparatively rarely seen.
Note return to page 2 *Composed by F. Wallerstein.
Note return to page 3 *Here is introduced a song for Antony, and the finish of the scene has been somewhat changed since this was in type
Note return to page 4 *Cleopatra could speak six or seven languages like several natives. Vide Plutarch's Lives—“Life of Antony.”
Note return to page 5 *Sung by Christy's Minstrels.
F. C. Burnand [1866], A Grand New and Original Burlesque, entitled Antony and Cleopatra; or, his-tory and her-story in a modern nilo-metre. By F. C. Burnand, Esq (Strand printing and publishing company [etc.], London) [word count] [S39400]. |
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