Voorbeelden van burlesque

• 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.

• Furthermore, literary burlesque had a popularity that strikes us as idiosyncratic, and drab realism made an inviting target.

• They make a burlesque of revolutionary myths of transparency.

• Worse, the burlesque doesn't just remove; it mocks the dispensation others have found in the soliloquy.

• Her study examines hard country through the burlesque, 'a comic mode that can be used to undermine any cultural ideal'.

• A higher level of comic refunctioning takes place when the original meaning of a quotation is completely changed by placing it in a burlesque context.

• At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner's burlesque of the secular.

• Similar in form to burlesque, pantomime however, took its subjects mainly from children's stories, although some deal with historical or exotic subjects.