His Voces Populi and his burlesques of recitations and music-hall songs are masterpieces of close observation and high-spirited fun.
They, and Mr. Hare with them, introduced the natural style of acting, thereby supplanting the theatrical tone and gestures of the old school, which Burlesques had done good service in laughing off our Stage for ever.
Thackeray's contributions to Punch belong to an earlier period, but the brilliant burlesques of popular novelists, which he initiated by his travesties of Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, G.
In 1913 Punch burlesques the wonderful phraseology of The Times art critic in one of his "Studies of reviewers," which deals with the exhibitors at the Neo-British Art League.
The fickleness of men in costume in a manner burlesques their shifty and uncertain taste in literature.
His Third Song makes a jest of the Fall, rails upon Adam and Eve, and burlesques the Conduct of God Almighty for not making Mankind over again.
Here you have a Man of Breeding and Figure that burlesques the Bible, Swears, and talks Smut to Ladies, speaks ill of his Friend behind his Back, and betraies his Interest.
This for a heavy Piece of Profaness, is no doubt thought a lucky one, because it burlesques the Text, and the Comment, all under one.
This is a hodgepodge of burlesques upon the topics of the day, ballets representing flowers and perfumes and the history of fashion, and choruses representing the different journals, the arts, inventions and manufactures.
There were burlesquesupon current topics and singing choruses.
Manchester, entered the Middle Temple, but soon took to writing for the stage, and produced many popularburlesques and extravaganzas.
The last, indeed, preceded Phrynichus, but merely in the burlesques of the rude Thespian stage; the example of Phrynichus had now directed his attention to the new species of drama, but without any remarkable talent for its cultivation.
One of his earliest and most popular burlesques was entitled La Mosquito.
They rank among the best, if they are not the very best, burlesques in any living language.
One of the most popular as well as the longest lived of the contemporary burlesques is Evangeline, in the construction or reconstruction of which Mr. Brougham is known to have had a share.
And yet the Rime of Sir Thopas, who goes seeking an elf queen for his mate, and is encountered by the giant Sir Olifaunt, burlesques these same romances with their impossible adventures and their tedious rambling descriptions.
Mr. Burnand has been bringing out burlesques ever since 1855, when he wrote "Villikins and his Dinah" for the Cambridge A.
With Bayly's twaddling verse Mr. Lang is in satiric ecstasies; he revels in its unconscious inanity, and burlesques it repeatedly with infinite gusto.
But these pieces were not burlesques in the present-century sense of the word.
These fairy pieces of Planche's were not burlesquesquite in the sense in which his classical pieces were, but they belong, nevertheless, to the burlesque genre.
Three burlesques have been devoted to the life and adventures of Sir Richard Whittington.
Of subsequent burlesques of "Hamlet" there have not been many, but some of them have been really clever and commendable.
Mr. Burnand has written more "classical" burlesques than any man living or dead.
This latter, if I remember rightly, was the first of the burlesques in three acts.
Two of the burlesqueson "Arabian Nights" topics are from the pen of Francis Talfourd.
Reed, of the same journal, during the last year has developed not only a most delightful vein of humour, but an original style of handling--his burlesques of the decadents are better than the originals almost.
The mediaeval monuments of art abound with burlesques and satires on the minstrels, whose instruments of music are placed in the hands sometimes of monsters, and at others in those of animals of a not very refined character.
A subject like this was well fitted for the burlesqueson the stalls, and accordingly we find on one of those in the cathedral at Rouen, the group given in our cut No.
But his burlesques had met with a better reception, while the election episodes in Don Quixote had seemed to disclose a fresh field for the satire of contemporary manners.
It is certainly one of the best burlesquesever written.
Of this class of burlesques the most interesting example, perhaps, is the one annexed, representing a Soul doomed to return to its earthly home in the form of a pig.
The Woman's Rights agitation gave rise to burlesques precisely similar in inane extravagance to those which appeared in England, America, and France.
The best specimen of Greek caricature that has come down to us burlesques no less serious a theme than the great oracle of Apollo at Delphos, given on page 30.
So in his caricature of Daniel Button, drawn to ridicule the Tory frequenters of Button's coffee-house, he relates an incident as well as burlesques individuals.
One of his early burlesques came under the favourable notice of Mark Lemon, then editor of Punch, and Burnand, who was already writing for the comic paper Fun, became in 1862 a regular contributor to Punch.
It instigated various burlesques (Moore's Diary, 459; his Songs and Ballads of the Rev.
A certain swagger about the man laid Burgoyne open to the stinging burlesques of the small writers of the day.
The writer, whoever he was, did not indulge in flattery, and in particular he attacked our classical burlesques on the ground that they were ugly.
The burlesques have that Aristophanic touch of beauty, pathos, and wisdom mingled with the wildest pantomime.
All the burlesques are good, and will bear continual re-reading; but the masterpiece of all is Rebecca and Rowena, the continuation in burlesque of Ivanhoe.
But otherwise, the burlesques were as little cheerful as profitable.
As for the burlesques themselves, they were nothing, the performers personally everything.
Not the least interesting examples of the indirect reaction to the Letters are the two verse caricatures or burlesques here reprinted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burlesques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
