He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.
Occupying intersticial positions between genres, performance venues and levels of cultural artefact, burlesques breached cultural categories within the theatrical world.
In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.
All of the categories of musical selections routinely found in operatic burlesques are represented here, and several medleys juxtapose varying types of music.
Certainly, this consideration would have been at work in the operatic burlesques as well.
The activity of rhyme is autocratic as well as misaligned, burlesqueing the government of the body.
The comedy, in fact, was just the central part of these performances, conceived as full spectacles that incorporated many aspects of popular culture: dances, burlesques, carnivalesque elements.
