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Burlesque is a term which refers to a literary, dramatic or musical work that caricatures the manner, style or subject of serious works and their subjects. Deriving from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery. Another derivative from the Italian is burletta, which usually refers to a brief comic Italian (or, later, English) opera.
Often found in the case of Shakespeare's plays for example.
See also Travesty.
burlesque burletta
F.C.L. Bosman (1928, p. 394) notes a quaint paring of the two terms in the description of Dowling's 1834 travesty of Othello (Othello Travestie) as a "burlesque burletta".
Ethiopian burlesque
A particular form developed by the minstrelsy movement was the so-called Ethiopian burlesque, often played in blackface[1], and popular in Cape Town in the mid 19th century. Also found as an Ethiopian opera, Ethiopian farce, or Ethiopian sketch.
"Ethiopian" was a term often of course employed simply as a euphemism for "negro" (or "nigger"), as in most of these cases, thus one would find such forms as Negro farce, Negro burlesque, or Negro sketch.
Examples included: Hamlet the Dainty, "an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare's Hamlet" by George W. H. Griffin (1829-1879); Othello an "Ethiopian burlesque in 3 Acts", Shylock, or De Old Clothes Merchant of Venice ("Grand Ethiopian Burlesque"), Mazeppa ("Grand Ethiopian Burlesque").
Negro farce
This is a reference to farces performed in blackface[2], also termed Ethiopian farce, Ethiopian being used as a euphemism for "negro" (or "nigger").
Also found are such forms as Negro burlesque and Negro sketch.
See also the entry on Ethiopian farce
Sources
"Burlesque" in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlesque)
"Burletta" in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burletta)
William John Mahar. 1999. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. University of Illinois Press: pp. 159-161[3]
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