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Burlesques

Here are entered collections of burlesque literature. Works on burlesque as a literary composition are entered under the heading Burlesque (Literature). Works on burlesque as a theatrical entertainment are entered under Burlesque (Theater).

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• Pasquinades

• Parodies

• A Book of Burlesques (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1920), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Book of Ballads (New York: Redfield, 1852), ed. by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (PDF files at fcla.edu)
• Borrowed Plumes (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1902), by Owen Seaman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Christmas Garland, by Max Beerbohm (Gutenberg text)
• Collected Parodies (New York: G.H. Doran, ca. 1921), by John Collings Squire (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q., by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Green Bays: Verses and Parodies by Q. (London: Methuen and Co., 1893), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Heavens (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Louis Untermeyer, illust. by C. Bertram Hartman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Imaginary Speeches, and Other Parodies in Prose and Verse (London: S. Swift and Co., 1912), by John Collings Squire
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lapsus Calami (first edition; Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1891), by James Kenneth Stephen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lapsus Calami (fourth edition, "with considerable omissions and additions"; Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1891), by James Kenneth Stephen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Misfits: A Book of Parodies (Oxford: F. Harvey, 1905), by George F. Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Parodies of the Works of English and American Authors (6 volumes; London: Reeves and Turner, 1884-1889), by Walter Hamilton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Parody Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1904), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Parody Outline of History, by Donald Ogden Stewart, illust. by Herb Roth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Poets in the Nursery (London and New York: J. Lane, 1920), by Charles Powell, contrib. by John Drinkwater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum (from the 1879 John Murray edition), by James Smith and Horace Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Triumph of the Nut, and Other Parodies (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1923), by Christopher Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Martha Bayless (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Re-Echo Club (New York: F. Bigelow Corp, c1913), by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text and page images)