Troy, Carthage and the Victorians Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: The Ruins of Troy and Carthage ‘Still Flaming to the Imagination’ in the Nineteenth Century
- 2 ‘An Imaginary Troy’: Homeric Pilgrimage, Topography and Archaeology
- 3 ‘Not Classic, but Quite Correct’: The Trojan War at the Circus
- 4 Freely Perverted from Classic Texts’: The Iliad and Aeneid Burlesqued
- 5 ‘Sitting Among the Bricks of Covent Garden’: Carthage and the Future Ruins of the Nineteenth Century
- Epilogue: Troy and Carthage as ‘A Beacon and a Warning’
- Appendix A List of Burlesques
- Appendix B Select Chronology
- References
- Index
Appendix A - List of Burlesques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: The Ruins of Troy and Carthage ‘Still Flaming to the Imagination’ in the Nineteenth Century
- 2 ‘An Imaginary Troy’: Homeric Pilgrimage, Topography and Archaeology
- 3 ‘Not Classic, but Quite Correct’: The Trojan War at the Circus
- 4 Freely Perverted from Classic Texts’: The Iliad and Aeneid Burlesqued
- 5 ‘Sitting Among the Bricks of Covent Garden’: Carthage and the Future Ruins of the Nineteenth Century
- Epilogue: Troy and Carthage as ‘A Beacon and a Warning’
- Appendix A List of Burlesques
- Appendix B Select Chronology
- References
- Index
Summary
1819 Thomas Dibdin, Melodrama Mad! Or, the Siege of Troy. A New Comic, Pathetic, Historic, ANachronasmatic, Ethic, Epic Melange, ‘full of woe and right merrie conceit’ (Surrey Theatre)
1819 ‘John Burneybusby’ [Westminster School pupils] The Siege of Troy: A Tragic Drama. To be performed in the Westminster School Dormitory and Written upon the Ancient Pure Greek Model
1833 Anon. (Juvenile Drama script printed by O. Hodgson) The Siege of Troy; or, the Giant Horse of Sinon: A Grand Spectacle in Three Acts (Astley's Amphitheatre)
1840 Anon. (Probably a reprise of 1833 show) The Siege of Troy; or, The GreatHorse of Greece (Astley's Amphitheatre)
1854 ‘Hugo Vamp’ [John Robert O'Neill], The Siege of Troy; or, The Miss-Judgment of Paris (Astley's Amphitheatre)
1846 Charles Selby [George Henry Wilson], The Judgment of Paris; or, the Pas de Pippins (Adelphi Theatre)
1858 ‘Hugo Vamp’ [John Robert O'Neill], The Golden Pippin, or, Judgment of Paris and Siege of Troy (Marionette Theatre, Cremorne Gardens, May)
1858 Robert B. Brough, The Iliad; or, The Siege of Troy: A Burlesque in One Act (Lyceum Theatre, December)
1860 Francis C. Burnand, Dido: The Celebrated Widow: A tragical, classical and original burlesque in one act (Royal St James's Theatre)
1864 Vincent Amcott, Fair Helen (Oxford)
1866 F. C. Burnand, Paris; or Vive Lemprière! (Royal Strand Theatre)
1866 F. C. Burnand, Helen; or, Taken from the Greek. A Burlesque in three scenes, A companion piece to Paris (Adelphi Theatre)
1868 W. M. Akhurst, Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair; or, The Giant Horse and the Siege of Troy. A Classical Burlesque Extravaganza (Theatre Royal, Melbourne)
1870 H. Such Granville, Aeneas; or, Dido Done! A new burlesque sketch, in one act (Theatre Royal, Barnstaple: United Services Dramatic Club)
1876 Henry George Churchill, The Siege of Troy: a comic opera etc. (in verse)
1883 Charles Winter Warr and Otto Goldschmidt, The Tale of Troy: Scenes and Tableaux from the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (South Kensington, Cromwell House:Winter Warr's home)
1884 Robert Reece, Our Helen: a burlesque in three acts, freely adapted from the Belle Helene of Meilhac and Halévy (Gaiety Theatre)
1888 Edward W. Bowles Troy Again: Extravaganza
1893 Anon. Dido and Aeneas (Royal Strand Theatre)
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- Troy, Carthage and the VictoriansThe Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination, pp. 347 - 348Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018