A play by Gypsy Rose Lee entitled The Naked Genius ( 1943 ) was the inspiration for Doll Face ( 1945 ), a musical about a burlesque star ( Vivian Blaine ) who wants to become a legitimate actress.

A later example is the 1927 burlesque operetta by Ernst Krenek entitled Schwergewicht ( Heavyweight ) ( 1927 ).

The Pudding put up its first full performance, of a well-known tragic burlesque entitled Bombastes Furioso, on December 13th, 1844.

For the Gaiety Theatre, London, Burnand wrote a burlesque on The Tempest entitled Ariel in 1883, with music by Meyer Lutz, starring Nellie Farren and Arthur Williams.

Locations in New York City included the Hotel Chelsea and Times Square's all-male burlesque Gaiety Theatre ( dancers from theatre participated in one of the book's photo sessions ).

" Coward brought the play to the Haymarket Theatre, London, in April 1947, where The Times praised it as " a wittily impudent and neatly invented burlesque of a French farce.

Brooks Atkinson in The New York Times wrote that " By hiring a trio of knockabout comedians, Mr. De Sylva has given it all the advantages of a burlesque show ... Everything is noisy, funny and in order.

The Times wrote: " The dialogue throughout is superior in ability and point to that with which ordinary burlesque and extravaganza have familiarized us ; so much so, in fact, that it was a daring experiment to produce such a piece on such a night.

There's also one of burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee's slinky black beaded costumes, which turned many a head back in the day. And don't forget the outfit worn by the " Viking Giant " himself, Johann K. Peturson.

He reappeared in London in 1866 as Sir Arthur Lascelles in Morion's All that Glitters is not Gold, but his great success at that time was in F. C. Burnand's burlesque of Black-eyed Susan, as Hatchett, " with dance.

Other significant differences were that the black minstrels added religious themes to their shows while whites shied from them, and that the black companies commonly ended the first act of the show with a military high-stepping, brass band burlesque, a practice adopted after Callender's Minstrels used it in 1875 or 1876.

Other features found in Menippean satire are different forms of parody and mythological burlesque, a critique of the myths inherited from traditional culture, a rhapsodic nature, a fragmented narrative, the combination of many different targets, and the rapid moving between styles and points of view.

Conversely, not all humour, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessarily " satirical ", even when it uses the satirical tools of irony, parody, and burlesque.

They were written in pure and simple German, and appealed to the popular taste ; in many there was a vein of extravagant humour or even burlesque, while others were full of quiet meditation and solemn sentiment.

While Jordaens drew upon Rubens ’ motifs throughout his career, his work is differentiated by a tendency to greater realism, a crowding of the surface of his compositions, and a preference for the burlesque, even within the context of religious and mythological subjects.

Some shows include Chinese opera, dramas, and in some areas, even burlesque shows.

Concepts of decorum, increasingly sensed as inhibitive and stultifying, were aggressively attacked and deconstructed by writers of the Modernist movement, with the result that readers ' expectations were no longer based on decorum, and in consequence the violations of decorum that underlie the wit of mock-heroic, of literary burlesque, and even a sense of bathos, were dulled in the twentieth-century reader.

He may have made an even larger contribution to the play for as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states Dafydd: “ may indeed, as has been suggested, be the model for Shakespeare's Fluellen, the archetypal Welshman .” This theory making Dafydd Gam one of the sources for the play has long been discussed, as early as 1812 it was said “ There can be little doubt but that Shakspeare, in his burlesque character of Fluellen, intended David Gam .”

Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

What began as a hillbilly burlesque soon evolved into one of the most imaginative, popular and well-drawn strips of the 20th century.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

Chaplin's speciality with the company was a burlesque of Dick Turpin and the music hall star " Dr. Bodie ".

Chaplin's second American tour with the Karno company was not particularly successful, as cast members fell sick and audiences failed to grasp the troupe's burlesque humour.

The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque.

According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

Furthermore, there are tangos among round dances, participation dances can involve tango mixers, and tango-style dances may be used in ice dancing or in burlesque theatre.

One of the jobs was working in a burlesque revue with fan dancer Sally Rand.

In fact, " Metzengerstein ", the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.

Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of the Main Plot to place Arbella Stuart on the English throne, so if Shakespeare wished to use Oldcastle to embarrass the Cobhams, he seems unlikely to have done so on religious grounds.

LaGuardia proved successful in shutting down the burlesque theaters, whose naughty shows offended his puritanical sensibilities.

Set in a burlesque expressionist stage design, ghoulish puppets unveil the fate of a young boy who isn't able to feel fear, because he hasn't realized what death is.

The Happy Land ( Court Theatre, 1873 ), a daring political satire and burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's The Wicked World, was written in collaboration with Gilbert, who wrote under the pseudonym F. L. Tomline.

* 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American burlesque dancer, model, and actress ( d. 1999 )

* Bob Fosse, a noted jazz choreographer who created a new form of jazz dance that was inspired by Fred Astaire and the burlesque and vaudeville styles.

After being inspired by a poster featuring a local, Hollywood burlesque performer Virginia Lee Hicks, who was then performing as Jennie Lee, the " Bazoom Girl ", at the New Follies Burlesk at 548 S. Main St, Los Angeles, Ginsburg wrote a tribute song " Jennie Lee " that he brought to Berry and Torrence.

Wieseltier also edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas refers to the film as " raucous, knockabout comedy, a paean to love, freedom and friendship " in his positive review, before concluding that despite it being two hours and nine minutes long (" an awfully long running time for a comedy "), Black Cat, White Cat " gets away with it better than most over-long movies due to its beguiling rambling shaggy dog-story quality ".

The book received a strongly positive review by John Updike in The New York Times, in which he said " While not quite so sprightly as Stuart Little, and less rich in personalities and incident than Charlotte's Web -- that paean to barnyard life by a city humorist turned farmer -- The Trumpet of the Swan has superior qualities of its own ; it is the most spacious and serene of the three, the one most imbued with the author's sense of the precious instinctual heritage represented by wild nature "

Though he published a paean to The Bachelor Life in 1941, Nathan had a reputation as a " ladies man " -- and one not averse to dating within his field ; indeed the character of Addison De Witt, the waspish theater critic who squires a starlet ( played by a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe ) in the film All About Eve, was based on Nathan.

It was after this trip that he published his book, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, which featured a paean to the historic Cohoes Falls called Lines Written at the Cohos, or Falls of the Mohawk River, among other famous verses.