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340 The Other Little Lord Fondleboy, travestie, by Frederick Bowyer. Avenue, June 18, 1888.
Our Cinderella, by R. Reece. Gaiety, Sept. 8, 1883.
Our Helen, burlesque, adapted from “La Belle Helène,” by Robert Reece. Gaiety, April 8, 1884.
Our Own Antony and Cleopatra, “an absurdity,” by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety, September 8, 1873.
Our Traviata, burlesque, by W. F. Vandervell. Surrey Theatre, September 14, 1857.
Our War Correspondent, burl., Leicester T., May 27, 1878.
Out of the Ranks, burlesque, by Robert Reece. Strand, June 3, 1884.
Oxygen; or, Gas in Burlesque Metre, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie. Folly, March 31, 1877.
Paddy in the Moon Burlesque, by C. H. Hazlewood.
Pan; or, the Loves of Echo and Narcissus, by H. J. Byron.
Pandora’s Box, by H. J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, December 26, 1866.
The Paphian Bower; or, Venus and Adonis. A mythological burlesque, by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1832. Benjamin Webster, W. Vining, J. Bland, Madame Vestris.
Papillonetta, by W. Brough. Prince of Wales’s Theatre, Liverpool, December 26, 1865.
Paris; or, Vive Lemprière, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, April 2, 1886. David James, Thomas Thorne, H. J. Turner, J. D. Stoyle.
Patient Penelope; or, the Return of Ulysses, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, November 25, 1863.
Paul and Virginia, burlesque, by Arthur Wood. Olympic, October 15, 1870.
Paul Clifford Burlesque, by C. H. Hazlewood.
Paw Clawdian, or, the Roman Awry, a travestie of “Claudian,” by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, February 14, 1884. J. L. Toole, W. Cheesman, Miss Marie Linden.
The Peddler of Very Nice, a burlesque of the Trial Scene in “The Merchant of Venice.” Anonymous. Boston, U.S., Lee and Shepard, 1866.
Pentheus, an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts and W. R. Anson. Oxford, T. and G. Shrimpton, 1866.
The People’s William; or, Randy the (W) Reckless and the Grand Old Man all at Sea. Birkenhead T., May 12, 1884.
Perdita; or, the Royal Milkmaid, by W. Brough. Lyceum, September 15, 1856.
Perola; or, the Jewel and the Duel. Rotherham Theatre, March 19, 1883.
Perseus and Andromeda, burlesque, by William Brough.
Peter Wilkins, an extravagant extrav, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Adelphi, April 13, 1846.
Peter Wilkins. Panto-opening, by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane, December, 1860.
Phæton; or, Pride must have a Fall, by William Brough. For Amateurs. London: S. O. Beeton, 1865.
Pickwick, dramatic Cantata, by F. C. Burnand. Comedy, February, 1889. Arthur Cecil, Rutland Barrington, Miss Lottie Venne.
Pietro Wilkini; or, the Castaways, the Wild Men, and the Winged Beauty, burlesque, by F. Eyles, Jun. Swiss Gardens, Shoreham, August 18, 1870.
Pirithous, the Son of Ixion, burl., by F. C. Burnand.
Pizarro; a Spanish Rolla-King Peruvian Drama, by C. J. Collins. Drury Lane, September 22, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Frank Matthews, George Honey.
Pizarro; or, the Leotard of Peru, by Leicester Buckingham. Strand, 1862. James Rogers, J. Clarke, Misses Eleanor Bufton, and C. Saunders.
Pizarro, the Great Tyrant, burlesque, by Mr. Marchant.
Plucky Parthenia, by Robert Reece. Portsmouth, February 26, 1874.
Pluto and Proserpine; or, the Belle, and the Pomegranate, by F. Talfourd. Haymarket, April 5, 1858. Compton, Clark, Braid, Miss L. Leclercq.
Pluto; or, Little Orpheus and His Lute, by H. J. Byron. Royalty, December 26, 1881. W. J. Hill, C. Glenney, Miss Lydia Thompson.
Po-ca-hon-tas; or, the Gentle Savage, burlesque, by John Brougham. Wallack’s Theatre, New York, U.S.
Poll and Partner Joe; or, the Pride of Putney, and the Pressing Pirate, by F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, May 6, 1871. Lionel Brough, H. Cox, Mrs. John Wood.
The Pretty Druidess; or, the Mother, the Maid, and the Miseltoe Bough (founded on “Norma”), by W. S. Gilbert. Charing Cross, June 19, 1869. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
Pretty Esmeralda and Captain Phœbus of Ours, by Henry J. Byron. Gaiety, April 2, 1879. E. Royce, Edward Terry, Misses E. Farren, C. Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.
Pretty Miss Pippin, by Percy Vere (Amateur).
Prince Cherry, and Princess Fair Star, by E. J. Collins. Strand, July 11, 1855.
Prince Love; or, the Fays of the Forest, by F. Vandervell. Philharmonic Theatre, December 26, 1870.
Prince Sohobazar; or, Eighteen-carat Soup, burlesque-extrav., by E. W. Bowles. Kilburn Town Hall, London, December 11, 1885.
The Princess, by W. S. Gilbert. Olympic, January 8, 1870.
Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant. Respectful perversion of Tennyson’s “Princess,” by W. S. Gilbert. Savoy T., January 5, 1884. R. Barrington, G. Grossmith, Misses Braham and Brandram.
Princess Ouida; or, Castle Adamandeve, by H. G. F. Taylor. London: A. Hays, 1886.
Princess Primrose, by Messrs. Bellingham and Best. Olympic, June 13, 1866.
Printer’s Devil, burlesque extrav. Anonymous.
Prometheus; or, The Man on the Rock, by R. Reece.
The Proscribed Royalist; or, Who Stole the Ducks, by Frank Seymour. Opera House, Leicester, August 1, 1881.
Prospero; or, the King of the Caliban Islands. Imperial Theatre, December 26, 1883.
Pygmalion; or, the Statue Fair, by William Brough. Strand, April 20, 1867.
Puss in a new pair of Boots, by H. J. Byron. Strand, 1862.
Quasimodo, the Deformed; or, the Man with the Hump, and the Belle of Notre Dame, by H. Spry. Grecian, April 18, 1870.
Queen of Hearts, burlesque. Sanger’s Amphitheatre, Ramsgate, July 14, 1884.
The Quizziology of the British Drama, comprising stage passions, stage characters, and stage plays, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. London, Punch Office, 1846. With this is usually found Scenes from the Rejected Comedies. See “Scenes.”
Randolph the Reckless, extravaganza, by Victor Stevens. Salford T., August 6, 1888.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, burlesque, by W. Brough. Haymarket, December 26, 1862. Chippendale, Tilbury, Compton, Louise Keeley.
Le Raw Carotte, by G. Thorne. Margate T., Sept. 19, 1873
Raymond and Agnes Burlesque, by Mr. Marchant.
The Real Case of Hide and Seekyll, by George Grossmith. Royalty, September 3, 1888. In this Mr. Lionel Brough cleverly imitated both Mr. Mansfield & Mr. Bandmann.
The Red Rover; or, I believe you my Buoy, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, Dec. 26, 1887. Marius, Cox, Miss Lottie Venne.
341 The Rehearsal, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, London, printed for Thomas Dring, 1672, by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. This celebrated work burlesques passages in the plays of Mrs. A. Behn, J. Dryden, Sir W. Davenant, Killigrew, and others. The history of The Rehearsal, with notes, and parallel passages has been ably written by Mr. Edward Arber in his series of valuable English Reprints. It was first acted on December 7, 1671.
The Rehearsal, an Absurdity, by Harry Dacre.
Revolt of the Workhouse, burlesque-opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Fitzroy Theatre, February 24, 1834.
Richard III., travestie, by J. Stirling Coyne. Adelphi, February 12, 1844. Wright, Honey, and Miss Woolgar.
Richard ye Third, by Charles Selby. Strand, Feb. 26, 1844.
Richelieu Redressed, by R. Reece. Olympic, Oct. 27, 1873.
Rienzi Reinstated; or, the Last of the Cobbler, by W. A. Allan. Globe, December 21, 1874.
The Right-Fall Heir; or, the Sea-Rover and the Fall over. By H. T. Arden, 1868.
The Right-Fellow; or, the Wrong-Fellow and the Felo d’ye see? By W. F. Marshall, R. N. School, New Cross, December 21, 1868.
Rip Van Winkle; or, Some Nambulistic Knickerbockers, by John Strachan and Henry Davis. Newcastle Theatre, April 2, 1866.
Rip Van Winkle; or, a Little Game of Nap, by F. Savile Clarke. Portsmouth Theatre, March 29, 1880.
Riquet with the Tuft, burlesque-extrav., by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1836. Charles Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss R. Isaacs, Mrs. Anderson.
The Rise and Fall of Richard III.; or, a New Front to an old Dicky, a Richardsonian burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty, September 24, 1868. Dewar, Misses C. Saunders, Nellie Bromley and M. Oliver.
Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
The Rival Rascals; or, Virtue Rewarded, and Vice Versa, by Alfred Greenland, Jun. St. George’s May 3, 1877.
The Rival Sergeants, burletta, by William Collier. Sadler’s Wells, April 5, 1847.
Robert the Devil; or, the Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun, by W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, Dec. 21, 1868. J. G. Taylor, R. Soutar, Miss E. Farren. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
Robert Macaire; or, the Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out, by Henry J. Byron. Globe, April 16, 1870. J. Clarke, and Fanny Josephs.
Robert Macaire Renovated, by Lloyd Clarance. Barnsley Theatre, March 3, 1884.
Robert Make-Airs; or, the Two Fugitives. Ethiopian burlesque, by E. Warden. New York, 1856.
Robin Hood, burl. spectacle, by Messrs. Stocqueler, Shirley Brooks, and Charles Kenny. Lyceum, May 4, 1846.
Robin Hood. Panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane, December, 1858.
Robin Hood; or, the Forester’s Fate, by F. C. Burnand. Olympic, December 26, 1862.
Robin Hood, Burlesque, by William Brough. For amateurs. London: S. O. Beeton, 1865.
Robin Hood, and the Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest, by George Thorne and F. Grove Palmer, Margate, 1889.
Robin Hood Burlesque, by C. H. Hazlewood.
Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribbee Islands, by Henry J. Byron. Princess’s December 26, 1860.
Robinson Crusoe, burl., by H. J. Byron, Gilbert, Hood, Leigh, Sketchley, & Prowse. Haymarket, July 6, 1867.
Robinson Crusoe; burl., by H. B. Farnie. Prince’s, Manchester, October 7, 1876, Folly (London,) Nov. 11, 1876.
Robinson Crusoe Revived, by E. C. Bertrand. Dumfries Theatre, February 5, 1877.
Robinson Crusoe; or, the Pirate Will, Pretty Poll, and Captain Bill. Todmorden Theatre, October 29, 1883.
Robinson Crusoe, burl.-pantomime, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie. Avenue, December 23, 1886. Arthur Roberts, Miss P. Broughton.
Rob Roy, burlesque, by Sydney French. Marylebone T., June 29, 1867.
Robbing Roy; or, Scotched and Kilt, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety, November 11, 1879. Edward Terry, E. W. Royce, T. Squire, Misses E. Farren, Kate Vaughan, and C. Gilchrist.
Rob Roy, his Great Wife and Small Family. By C. H. Hazlewood.
Romeo and Juliet, “as the Law Directs,” by Maurice G. Dowling. Strand, May 1, 1837.
Romeo and Juliet Travestie; or, The Cup of Cold Pison, by Andrew Halliday. Strand, November 3, 1859. H. J. Turner, Rogers, Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, C. Saunders.
Romeo and Juliet; or, the Shaming of the True, an atrocious outrage, by E. Nolan. Perpetrated at Oxford, by the St. John’s College Amateurs, during Commemoration, 1868. T. Shrimpton, Oxford.
Romeo the Radical, and Juliet the Jingo; or, Obstruction and Effect, by C. P. Emery. Alexandra Theatre, Walsall, August 14, 1882.
Romulus and Remus; or, Rome was not Built in a Day, a most absurdly ridiculous burlesque in one Act, being an attempt at something founded on Roman history, by T. F. Dillon Croker. Privately printed, 1859.
Romulus and Remus; or, the Two Rum-’uns, by R. Reece, Vaudeville, Dec. 23, 1872. James, Thorne, Nelly Power.
The Roof Scrambler, burlesque opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Victoria, June 15, 1835.
The Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm; or, the Villainous Squire and the Virtuous Villager. A burl.-drama by H. J. Byron. R.D.C. Crystal Palace, 1862.
Round the World in W’Eighty Days, by Captain Fitz-George, Brighton Theatre, March 13, 1877.
The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement, by George Canning, George Ellis, and John Hookham Frere. This originally appeared in “The Anti-Jacobin,” about 1798. It is a caricature of the sentimental German drama then fashionable.
The Rows of Castille, by Conway Edwardes. Brighton Theatre, March 4, 1872.
The Royal Riddle, burlesque, by Horace Mills. Woolwich Theatre (Amateurs), February 16, 1887.
Ruddy George; or, Robin Red Breast, a musical parody, by H. G. F. Taylor, and Percy Reeve. Toole’s T., March 19, 1887.
Rumfastian Innamorato, burlesque interlude. Oxberry, Harley, Knight.
Rumplestiltskin; or, the Woman at the Wheel, by F. C. Burnand.
Rumpelstiltskin! An extrav. for amateurs by M. W. Hallett
Ruy Blas Righted, by Robert Reece. Vaudeville. Jan. 3, 1874. D. James, T. Thorne, and Kate Bishop.
Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué, by A. C. Torr & H. Clark. First performed in Birmingham, Sept. 2, 1889. Gaiety, London, Sept. 21, 1889. Fred Leslie, C. Danby, F. Storey, Miss E. Farren. In this burlesque Mr. Leslie’s caricature of Mr. Henry Irving’s appearance and mannerisms was so pronounced that the Lord Chamberlain insisted on the part being considerably modified.
St. George and the Dragon, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Adelphi, March 24, 1845.
342 St. George and the Dragon, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Written for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first performed Feb. 21, 1856, when the author played the “Dragon.”
St. George and the Dragon, panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Alexandra Palace, Dec. 1877.
St. George and the Dragon, burl. Torquay T. Aug. 6, 1883.
Salammbo, the Lovely Queen of Carthage. Holborn, May 6, 1871.
Salthello Ovini. Illegitimate tragedy. Haymarket, July 26, 1875.
Sappho; or, Look before you Leap! by F. C. Burnand. For amateurs. London, S. O. Beeton, 1865.
Sardanapalus; or, the “fast” King of Assyria, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon. Adelphi, July 20, 1853.
Sardanapalus; or, the Light of Other Days, by H. Such Granville. St. George’s Hall, December 23, 1868.
Sardanapalus, burl., by H. Such Granville. Limerick Theatre, May 15, 1868.
The Scalded Back; or, Comin’ Scars, travestie of Hugh Conway and Comyns Carr’s “Called Back,” by W. Yardley. Novelty Theatre, July 12, 1884.
Scenes from the Rejected Comedies, by some of the competitors for the Prize of £500 offered by Mr. B. Webster, Lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, for the best original Comedy, illustrative of English Manners. These amusing scenes were written by Gilbert A. à Beckett, and parody passages of the plays of J. Sheridan Knowles, Douglas Jerrold, Serjeant Talfourd, J. R. Planché, E. Fitzball, Leigh Hunt, Mark Lemon, Sir E. B. Lytton, and of G. A. à Beckett himself. London, Punch office, 1844.
Seraphina the Fair, by Charles W. Laidlaw. Public Hall, Southend, December 26, 1874.
The Seven Champions of Christendom; or, Good Little St. George and the Naughty Snap dragon, by W. R. Osman. Alexandra T., August 22, 1870.
Shin Fain; or, Ourselves Alone, by Tom Telephone. Dublin. J. Duffy and Sons, 1882.
The Siege of Seringapatam; or, the Maiden of Mesopotamia, by F. C. Burnand. For the Fête in aid of the Funds of the Hospital for Incurables, 1863.
The Siege of Troy, burl., by Robert B. Brough. Lyceum, Dec. 27, 1858. J Rogers, Mrs. Keeley, Miss J. St. George.
Shylock; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved, by F. Talfourd. Olympic, July 4, 1853. F. Robson.
Silver Guilt, burl., by W. Warham. Strand, June 9, 1883.
Sinbad; or, the Dry-land Sailor, by James Horner. Coventry Theatre, July 7, 1884.
Sinbad the Sailor; or, the “Tar” that was “Pitched” into, by Frank W. Green. Princess’s, Edinburgh, March 31, 1878.
Sindbad the Sailor, by E. L. Blanchard. Crystal Palace, Dec., 1876.
Sir George and a Dragon; or, We are Seven, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, March 31, 1870.
Sir Marigold the Dottie; or, the Moonlight Knight, by C. F. Fuller, H.M.S. “Rainbow,” April 16, 1885.
Sir Rupert the Fearless, burl. extrav., by A. J. Seymour. Strand, April 24, 1848.
The Sleeping Beauty; Her Seven Fairy Godmothers, and a Wicked Fairy, by Charles Daly and B. Chatterton. Aldershot T., August 3, 1885.
Snow Bound, a dramatic entertainment, by George M. Baker. Contains an original burlesque on “Alonzo the Brave, and the Fair Imogene.” Boston, U.S.
Snowdrop, burlesque extravaganza, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty, November 21, 1864.
The Son of the Sun; or, the Fate of Phæton. A classical burl., by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Fitzroy T. Feb. 13, 1834.
La Sonnambula Burlesque, by C. H. Hazlewood.
The Somnambulist, a negro burlesque sketch, by H. Dacre.
La! Sonnambula! or, the Supper, the Sleeper, and the Merry Swiss Boy, by Henry J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, April 15, 1865, the opening night of Miss Marie Wilton’s management. F. Dewar, Harry Cox, J. Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, and Fanny Josephs.
Il Sonnambulo and Lively Little Alessio, by Henry J. Byron. Gaiety, April 6, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, W. Elton, Miss E. Farren.
The Spanish Dancers; or, Fans and Fandangoes, a Terpsichorean burl., by Charles Selby. St. James’s Oct. 18, 1854. J. L. Toole, Clarke, Misses Lydia Thompson, and E. Bufton.
The Spectre of Shooter’s Hill; or, the Broken Hot-cross Bun, by W. Sallenger. Woolwich Theatre, Oct. 20, 1888.
The Sphinx, by the Brothers Brough. Haymarket, April 9, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, J. Bland, and Miss P. Horton.
The Sphinx; a Touch from the Ancients (a new version of the Brothers Brough’s burlesque), by Walter Boult, Prince of Wales’s, Liverpool, January 6, 1872.
The Squires Maria; or, Too, too Far from the Madding Crowd, by Harry Adams. Hanley T., July 17, 1882.
Stage-Dora; or, Who Killed Cock Robin? travestie of Sardou’s Fédora, by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, May 26, 1883. J. L. Toole, E. D. Ward, W. Cheesman, Miss Marie Linden.
Stars and Garters, burlesque, by Robert Reece and H. B. Farnie. Folly, September 21, 1878.
The Statue Bride; an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts and W. R. Anson, Oxford.
Stranger, burlesque, by W. D. Ward (for Amateurs), 1859.
Stranger, stranger than ever; by R. Reece. Queen’s, November 4, 1868.
The Stranger Travestie. See “Rejected Addresses,” by James and Horace Smith.
Success; or, a Hit if you Like it, a Grand mock-heroical burletta, by J. R. Planché. Adelphi, Dec. 12, 1825. T. P. Cooke, Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
Such a Guy Mannering, by Mr. Strachan, Jun. Newcastle-on-Tyne Theatre, April 27, 1868.
The Tailors (or “Quadrupeds”), a Tragedy for Warm Weather, by Samuel Foote. Haymarket, 1767. This burlesque was revived at the Haymarket in 1805, on which occasion a number of London tailors created a disturbance in and around the theatre.
A Tale of Tell; or, the Pole, the Patriot, and the Pippin, by Lloyd Clarance. Darwen T., February 26, 1883.
The Talisman, burl., by J. F. M’Ardle. Liverpool T., Aug. 10, 1874, and Philharmonic, London, Mar. 29, 1875.
Taming a Tartar, burlesque, by Charles Selby. Adelphi, October 20, 1845.
Tam O’Shanter, burlesque, by W. Lowe, Opera House, Dundee, February 10, 1873.
Tantalus; or, Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip, by Arthur Matthison and Charles Wyndham. Folly, Oct. 14, 1878.
Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso, by J. R. Planché. Olympic, December 26, 1834. J. Bland, Wyman, Madame Vestris.
Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso, by Stirling Coyne. Adelphi, October 15, 1844.
The Tempest, the very last edition of, by A. H. O.
The O’Dora, a parody of Sardou’s Théodora, by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s July 13, 1885. J. L. Toole and Miss Mary Linden, whose imitation of Sara Bernhardt was particularly clever and comical.
Theseus and Ariadne; or, the Marriage of Bacchus. A classical extrav., by J. R. Planché. Lyceum, April 24, 1848. C. Mathews, Miss Fitzwilliam, Mdme. Vestris.
343 Thespis, burlesque, by W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, J. L. Toole, Miss E. Farren.
The Three Calenders, burl., by Charles Penruddocke.
Three Graces, by G. A. à Beckett. Princess’s April 17, 1843.
The Three Musket Dears, and a Little One In, by Joseph and Harry Paulton. Strand, October 5, 1871.
Timour, the Cream of all the Tartars. Princess’s, March 24, 1845.
Timour the Tartar; or the Iron Master of Samarkand-by-Oxus, by John Oxenford and Shirley Brooks. Olympic, December 26, 1860. F. Robson, Horace Wigan.
Timour the Tartar; or, the Swell Belle of the Period, by Edward Chamberlaine. Alexandra, Dec. 27, 1869.
Tom Thumb, by Kane O’Hara. Founded on Henry Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, first performed at the Haymarket in 1730. O’Hara’s adaptation was produced at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1780.
Too Late for the Train, a dramatic entertainment, containing burl. scenes. G. M. Baker & Co., Boston, U.S.
Too Lovely Black-eyed Susan, perversion of Douglas Jerrold’s drama, by Horace Lennard. Crystal Palace, April 2, 1888, and Strand Theatre, April 11, 1888. Dan Leno and Miss Fannie Leslie.
Tootsie’s Lovers, by W. T. Le Queux. Brentford Theatre, April 19, 1886.
Touch and Go, burlesque, by Walter Andrews. Prince of Wales’s Theatre, Liverpool, March 8, 1886.
The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, by Henry Fielding. First acted in 1730. This contains parodies of numerous passages in the Tragedies of Dryden, N. Rowe, Thompson, and other writers whose works were then popular.
Trovatore; or, Larks with a Libretto, by Henry J. Byron. Olympic, April 26, 1880. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, Misses E. Farren, C. Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.
Troy Again, by E. A. Bowles (Amateurs). St. George’s Hall, March 13, 1888.
Tumble-down Dick; or, Phæton in the Suds, a Dramatic Entertainment of Walking, in Serious and Foolish Characters. Interlarded with Burlesque, Grotesque, Comic Interludes, as it is performed at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding. 1737.
Turkish Waters, a Tail of Coarse Hair; or, Medora’s Private Tear, by Rowley Hill. Written for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first performed November 18, 1857.
“Two” Much Alike, burlesque comedietta, by G. Grossmith, Jun., and A. R. Rogers. Gallery of Illustration, February 12, 1870.
Two Gallows; or, Slaves Escaped from Brixton, a Parody. Olympic, 1823.
Ulf the Minstrel; or, the Player, the Princess, and the Prophecy, burlesque-extravaganza, by R. Reece. Royalty, May 31, 1866.
Ulysses; or, the Iron Clad Warrior, and the Little Tug of War, by F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, April 17, 1865.
Under Proof; or, Very Much Above Pa, by Edward Rose, Princess’s, Edinburgh, May 1, 1879.
Undine Undone. Halifax Theatre, April 21, 1873.
Undine, burl. Great Yarmouth Theatre, August 13, 1883.
The Ups and Downs of Deal, and Black-eyed Susan. Marylebone, June 10, 1867.
Valentine and Orson, burl.-drama, by R. Reece. Gaiety, December 23, 1882.
Valentine and Orson, burlesque, by Joseph Ellis. Brentford Theatre, November 1, 1888.
The Vampire, burl., by Robert Reece. Strand, Aug. 15, 1872.
Vanderdecken; or, The Flying Anglo-Dutchman’s Phantom Penny Steamer, by Whyte Edgar. Novelty, Dec. 9, 1885.
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan; or, the Maniac, the Mistery, and the Malediction, by H. L. Walford. Gallery of Illustration, November 24, 1870.
Venus; or, Gods as they Were, and not as they ought to Have Been, by Edward Rose and Augustus Harris. Royalty, June 27, 1879.
Venus and Adonis, burl., by F. C. Burnand. Haymarket, March 28, 1864. Misses Nelly Moore and Louise Keeley.
The Very Last Days of Pompeii! By R. Reece. Vaudeville, February 13, 1872. David James, Thomas Thorne, Miss Nelly Power.
The Very Last Edition of the Tempest; or, the Wily Wizard, the Winsome Wench, and the Wicked Willain, by A. H. O.
The Very Latest Edition of the Gathering of the Clans, by G. W. Hunt. East London T., October 18, 1873.
The Very Latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons, by H. J. Byron. Strand, July 11, 1859. J. Rogers, J. Clarke, H. J. Turner, Misses C. Saunders, and M. Oliver.
The Very Latest Edition of Robinson Crusoe, by H. B. Farnie. Folly. Lionel Brough, Willie Edouin, Misses Lydia Thompson, and Violet Cameron.
Very Little Faust and More Mephistopheles, by F. C. Burnand. Charing Cross, August 18, 1869. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
Very Little Hamlet, by W. Yardley. Gaiety, Nov. 29, 1884.
Vesta, burl., by H. B. Farnie. St. James’s, Feb. 9, 1871.
The Vicar of Wide-awake-field; or, the Miss-Tery-ous Uncle, burlesque of “Olivia,” by H. P. Stephens and W. Yardley. Gaiety, August 8, 1885. In this Mr. Arthur Roberts and Miss L. Linden were very successful in their burlesques of Henry Irving & Miss Ellen Terry.
La Vie, burl.-opera, by H. B. Farnie. First produced at Brighton T., September 17, 1883, Avenue T., London, Oct. 3, 1883. Founded on “La Vie Parisienne.”
Villekyns and His Dinah, by Frederick Eyles. Swiss Gardens, Shoreham, July 7, 1873.
Villikins and His Dinah, burl., by F. C. Burnand. The Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1855.
Virginius the Rum’un, by W. Rogers. Sadler’s Wells, May, 1837.
Virginius; or, the Trial of a fond Papa, by Leicester Buckingham. St. James’s, October 1, 1859.
La Vivandière, by W. S. Gilbert. Queen’s, Jan. 18, 1868.
Vortigern; an Historical Play. Represented at the T. R., Drury Lane, April 2, 1796, as a supposed newly-discovered Drama by Shakespeare. Mr. John Kemble and Mrs. Jordan. This play was a forgery written by W. H. Ireland, and was afterwards published by him, with a Preface, in which he acknowledged the imposition he had practised, and gloried in having been able to deceive some of the first scholars and ablest critics of the day.
Wattie and Meg, burl., by W. Lowe. Dundee Theatre, January 20, 1873.
Wat Tyler, M.P., burlesque, by G. A. Sala. Gaiety, December 20, 1869.
The Weeping Willow, burl., by Peter Davey, Herbert Linford, and H. S. Ram. Town Hall, Staines. May 5, 1886.
What’s it on; or, Shakespeare-ience Teaches, burl., by W. Routledge. Gallery of Illustration (Amateurs), Jan. 29, ’70
The White Cat, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Globe, December 26, 1870.
The White Fawn, extrav., by F. C. Burnand. Holborn, April 13, 1868.
Whittington Junior, and his Sensation Cat, by Robert Reece. Royalty, November 23, 1870.
344 Whittington and His Cat. Panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane, Dec., 1875.
Whittington and his Cat, burl.-drama, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety, October 15, 1881. T. Squire, E. W. Royce, J. Dallas, Misses E. Farren and Kate Vaughan.
The Wife, a Tale of a Mantua Maker, burl.-drama by Joseph Graves. Strand, June 19, 1837.
William Tell, burl.-panto. Drury Lane, July 12, 1856.
William Tell, a Telling Version of an old Tell Tale, by Leicester Buckingham. Strand, April 13, 1857.
William Tell with a Vengeance, by Henry J. Byron. Alexandra T., Liverpool, September 4, 1867, and Strand Theatre, London, October 5, 1867.
William Tell, by Arthur J. O’Neil. Sadler’s Wells, October 19, 1867.
William Tell, Told over again, by Robert Reece. Gaiety, December 21, 1876.
Willikind and his Dinah, by J. Stirling Coyne. Haymarket, March 16, 1854.
Windsor Castle, burlesque-opera, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, June 5, 1865. David James, T. Thorne, J. Stoyle, H. J. Turner, Miss Ada Swanborough.
Windsor Castle, burlesque, by T. C. Grace. Newcastle Theatre, June 22, 1868.
Winter’s Tale, burlesque, by William Brough. Lyceum, September 15, 1856. J. L. Toole, William Brough, Mrs. A. Mellon, and Marie Wilton.
Wonderful Lamp in a new light, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Princess’s, July 4, 1844.
Wood Demon; or, One o’clock, by Charles Kenney and Albert Smith. Lyceum, May 6, 1847.
The World Underground; or, the Golden Fleece and the Brazen Waters, burlesque, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Haymarket, December, 1848.
Yellow Dwarf, burlesque-burletta, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Princess’s, December 26, 1842. Madame Sala.
The Yellow Dwarf, and the King of the Gold Mine, by J. R. Planché. Olympic, December 26, 1854. F. Robson, Miss Julia St. George.
The Yellow Dwarf; or, the Good Sovereign and the Bad Yellow Boy, by Frank Hall. Philharmonic. March 29, 1880.
Yellow Dwarf, burlesque-extrav., by Robert Reece and Alfred Thompson. Her Majesty’s, December 30, 1882.
Young Dick Whittington, by J. Wilton Jones. Leicester Theatre, April 18, 1881.
Young Fra Diavolo; the Terror of Terracina, by Henry J. Byron. Gaiety, November 18, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, R. Soutar, T. Squire, Misses E. Farren, Kate Vaughan and C. Gilchrist.
Young Rip Van Winkle, by R. Reece. Folly, April 17, 1876.
Zampa; or, The Buckaneer and the Little Dear, by T. F. Plowman. Court, October 2, 1872.
Zampa; or, the Cruel Corsair, and the Marble Maid, by J. F. McArdle. Liverpool T., October 9, 1876.
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In his Introduction to Burlesque Plays and Poems (G. Routledge & Sons, 1885), Mr. Henry Morley observes:—
“The word Burlesque came to us through the French from the Italian ‘burlesco’; ‘burla’ being mockery or raillery, and implying always an object. Burlesque must, burlarsi di uno, mock at somebody or something, and when intended to give pleasure it is nothing if not good-natured. One etymologist associates the word with the old English ‘bourd,’ a jest; the Gaelic ‘burd,’ he says, means mockery, and ‘buirleadh,’ is language of ridicule. Yes, and ‘burrail’ is the loud romping of children, and ‘burrall’ is weeping and wailing in a deep-toned howl. Another etymologist takes the Italian ‘burla,’ waggery or banter, as diminutive from the Latin ‘burra,’ which means a rough hair, but is used by Ausonius in the sense of a jest. That etymology no doubt fits burlesque to a hair, but, like Launce’s sweetheart, it may have more hair than wit.”
There are few more amusing pieces of light English literature than some of our early theatrical burlesques, such as Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Knight of the Burning Pestle,” the Duke of Buckingham’s “Rehearsal,” Henry Fielding’s “Tom Thumb,” Sheridan’s “The Critic,” and Poole’s “Hamlet,” with its absurd notes in imitation of several learned Shakespearian commentators.
During the last thirty or forty years this particular form of Dramatic Entertainment has been specially cultivated, and at the Strand, Royalty, and Gaiety Theatres, in London, the “Sacred Lamp of Burlesque” has been kept alight by the productions of such prolific and humorous writers as Gilbert A. à Beckett, Francis Talfourd, Leicester Buckingham, Albert Smith, William Brough, Robert Reece, Stirling Coyne, H. B. Farnie, Henry J. Byron, and F. C. Burnand. Much has been written for and against dramatic burlesque, and it may be said, without fear of contradiction, that recently far less attention has been devoted to the literary merits of the productions than to the scenery and dresses. The humour of the actors being considered as of less importance than a dazzling mise-en-scene with a host of pretty half-dressed ballet girls.
The following articles are of interest in connection with modern dramatic burlesque.
Is Burlesque Art? A paper by Blanche Reives, read before the Church and Stage Guild, October 7, 1880. The authoress quotes thus from a letter written by Mr. W. S. Gilbert:—“Burlesque in its higher development calls for high intellectual power on the part of its professors. Aristophanes, Rabelais, George Cruikshank, the authors of the Rejected Addresses, John Leech, and J. R. Planché were all in their respective lines professors of true burlesque. The form of burlesque with which modern theatre goers are familiar, scarcely calls for criticism, it is infantile in its folly.”
The “A. D. C.”, by F. C. Burnand, B.A., being Personal Reminiscences of the University Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge. London, Chapman & Hall, 1880.
Old Comedy on a New Stage, by R. C. Jebb. The Fortnightly Review. January 1884.
Burlesques, Old and New, a short paper by Leopold Wagner. Time, November, 1886.
The Spirit of Burlesque, in “The Universal Review” for October, 1888, by F. C. Burnand, himself probably the most prolific of all modern English authors of Parody and Burlesque.
Reminiscences of the New Royalty, by F. C. Burnand, containing an illustrated history of his immensely successful burlesque, “Black Eyed Susan.” See “The Universal Review,” December, 1888. 345
A very Private View of the Grosvenor.
(By Ollendorff Junior.)
Have you seen the Pictures? I have not seen the Pictures. I have not seen the Pictures, but I have seen the People. I shall lunch. Shall you lunch? I will lunch with you (at your expense). Thank you! (merci!) Has the Æsthete cut his hair? The Hairdresser has cut the Æsthete’s hair (i.e., the hair of the Æsthete). I like (j’aime) the Picture by (par) Keeley Halswelle, but I will not purchase (acheter) the Nocturne by Whistler (siffleur). Whistler be blowed! (sifflé). Keeley Halswelle’s Picture is called (s’appelle) “Royal Windsor.” Is it true (est-ce vrai que) the Soap-man (l’homme aux savons), Pears, has purchased “Royal Windsor” for an advertisement (affiche)? Val Prinsep has painted something like an Artist, but (mais) Mr. Holl has painted somebody who is something like an Artist. What is his name? His name is (il s’appelle) John Tenniel. It is very hot. It is crowded. When it is crowded it is hot. How many people are there here? I do not know: I will count them. I should like some lunch. You can lunch at the Restaurant below. Will you lunch there also (aussi)? With pleasure, if you will pay for both of us (tous les deux). I have a hat, a stick, an umbrella, a catalogue, a ticket of admission, and an appetite, but I have no money. I am afraid (je crains) that no one will give me luncheon. I will (je vais) go down (descendre) into the Restaurant.
Waiter! (garçon) have you some bread, some cutlets, some beef, some preserved strawberry jam-tart (confiture aux fraises), and some good wine (du bon vin)? Yes sir; here they are (voilà). Ah! my dear friend (mon cher ami), sit opposite (vis-à-vis) me. Call the Waiter, and tell him we lunch together (ensemble).
The wine is good, the bread is excellent, the beef is appetising. Excuse me one moment (un moment) I see Madame X—— going up (monter) to the Gallery. I must (il faut) speak to her. She has asked me to show (indiquer) her Mrs. Jopling’s pictures and Miss Montalba’s (ceux de Mlle. Montalba). You are coming back (de retour), are you not (n’est-ce pas)? Yes; I shall come back.
Waiter! the Gentleman who was with me will come back and pay for his own share. No, Sir (Non, Monsieur) you must pay for the two. It is too bad; I will speak to (m’addresser) Mr. Comyns Carr, or to Sir Coutts. All that is nothing to me (tout ça ne me regarde pas); you have (il faut absolument) to pay for two soups, two fish, two beefs, two vegetables (legumes), one bottle of the best (le meilleur) wine, two breads, two butters.
There is the money. I am angry. I will not give anything (ne-rien) to the waiter. The pictures are in the Gallery above, but his friend is no longer to be seen (visible). Where is that gentleman (ce monsieur)? He is gone (il est parti). Did he say when he would return? No; he did not say when he would return. He has taken my overcoat (par-dessus), my catalogue, and my new umbrella (parapluie). I will hasten (me presser) to seek (chercher) him. Another day I will look at the pictures.
Punch, May 5, 1883.
A CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
to some of the principal
Books and Periodicals
treating of Parody and Burlesque.
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Curiosities of Literature, by Isaac D’Israeli, has chapters on “Parodies,” “Literary Forgeries,” and on “Literary Impostures.”
The Edinburgh Review, November 1812, contains the famous article by Lord Jeffrey on “Rejected Addresses.”
The Three Trials of William Hone for publishing Three Parodies, namely, “The late John Wilkes’s Catechism,” “The Political Litany,” and the “Sinecurist’s Creed,” at Guildhall, London, December 18, 19, and 20, 1817. William Hone himself printed and published in 1818, the Reports of these Trials, which contain a great quantity of general information about Parodies.
Rejected Addresses. After this amusing collection of Parodies had run through seventeen editions Mr. John Murray purchased the copyright, and in 1833 he brought out the eighteenth edition. This has an interesting preface, and valuable notes.
The Westminster Review, July, 1854. An anonymous article on “Parody.” London: John Chapman.
Curiosités Littéraires, par Ludovic Lalanne. Paris: A. Delahays, 1857. Contains articles on imitation and burlesque.
Memoir of William Edmonstoune Aytoun. By (Sir) Theodore Martin. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1867. This contains information as to Aytoun’s share in the Bon Gaultier Ballads, his mock tragedy Firmilian, and other humorous writings, prose and verse.
The Standard, November 26, 1868; January 30, 1871.
La Parodie chez les Grecs, chez les Romains, et chez les Modernes, par Octave Delepierre. Londres: N. Trübner et Cie., 1870.
The chapter on English Parodies (p. 146 to p. 169) was compiled by M. Delepierre from information and Parodies supplied to him by Walter Hamilton.
The Athenæum, July 1, 1871. A Review of M. Delepierre’s “La Parodie.” London.
Pro and Con. Edited by Walter Hamilton. February 15, 1873. An article on Parodies, Paraphrases and Imitations. London: E. and F. Spon.
The Galaxy, May 1874. Contains “The Parody of the Period,” by J. Brander Matthews (p. 694). New York, U.S.A. Sheldon & Company.
Tinsley’s Magazine (London), September 1876. An article on “Parody,” by S. Waddington.
Fun, Ancient and Modern. By Dr. Maurice Davies. Two volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1878.
History of English Humour. By the Rev. A. G. L’Estrange. Two volumes. Has a chapter on Burlesque and Parody. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1878.
The Globe (London), November 17, 1880. An article on “Parodies.”
The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe. Collected by J. Parton, Boston, U.S. Houghton & Co., 1881. This contains a good collection of Parodies and Burlesques, most of which have been reprinted in this work.
346 The Gentleman’s Magazine, London. September, 1881. “The Poetry of Parody,” by W. Davenport Adams.
Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities. Edited by William T. Dobson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Contains a chapter on Parody.
The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters, with Memoirs. By William Bates, B.A. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.
A storehouse of information as to the history and origin of some of the best parodies in the language.
Vers de Société and Parody. By H. A. Page. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1883.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, February, 1884. “Charles Cotton,” by Rev. M. G. Watkins, contains an account of Cotton’s Burlesques. London: Chatto & Windus.
Chambers’s Journal, February 2, 1884. “The Muse of Parody.” Anonymous. London: W. & R. Chambers.
Burlesque Plays and Poems, with an Introduction, by Henry Morley. London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1885.
The Literary Remains of Charles Stuart Calverley, with a Memoir. By Walter J. Sendall. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. This is interesting as throwing light on the composition of Calverley’s exquisite imitations.
The Saturday Review (London), February 14, 1885. An article “The Art of Parody” (anonymous), which was reprinted on p. 103, Vol. II. of this collection.
The Daily News (London), October 10, 1885. A leader on Charles Stuart Calverley’s Poems and Parodies.
Longman’s Magazine (London), October, 1886. An article, “The Ethics of Plagiarism,” by Brander Matthews.
Temple Bar (London), January, 1887. An article on Charles Stuart Calverley, and his Parodies.
The Whitehall Review (London), March 10, 1887. “Concerning Parodies.”
Family Herald, July 28, 1888. “Parodies.” Anonymous. London: William Stevens.
The Daily News (London), December 3, 1888. A leader on “Parody.”
Temple Bar (London), March, 1889. An anonymous paper on James Smith, and the Rejected Addresses, the greater part of which is borrowed from the Preface to the 18th edition (1833), of the R. A.
In Cap and Gown, Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit. Edited by Charles Whibley. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.
This contains some of the best parodies which have been published in Cambridge, with notes descriptive of the principal publications of the University.
The Daily News (London), June 21, 1889. A leader on Hamilton’s “Collection of Poems and Parodies in Praise of Tobacco.”
The Daily News (London), October 16, 1889. A leader on Mr. Charles Whibley’s “In Cap and Gown,” which see.
Famous Literary Impostures, a Series of Essays. By H. R. Montgomery. London: E. W. Allen.
Notes and Queries. London. See particularly March 25, 1871; June 26, 1880; June 25, 1887; July 30, 1887.
The Weekly Dispatch. London. In November, 1879, this paper commenced prize competitions which it has continued ever since. Parodies of well-known authors are often selected for these competitions, and many examples have been quoted in this collection.
The World. London. In July, 1879, this journal opened its columns to competitors for prizes, which were awarded for the best parodies of certain poems selected by the Editor. Many of these have also been quoted in Parodies.
End of Sixth, and Last, Volume.
FOOTNOTES:
A bawbling vessel was he captain of
For shallow draught and bulk imprisible.
Shakespeare.
“St. George’s Fields are fields no more,
The trowel supersedes the plough;
Swamps, huge and inundate of yore,
Are changed to civic villas now.”
“Jenny was so mad,
She didn’t know what to do;
She put her finger in her ear,
And crackt it right in two.”
And snapt off her nose,
INDEX.
The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.
A Bibliography of the Parodies of Charles Dickens 224
A Bibliography of French Parodies 323
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312
Books and Periodicals dealing with Parody 345
Books of Reference on Slang, Cant, and “Argot” 282
Burlesques of Educational Works 328
English Burlesques of the Classics 325
Literary Forgeries and Impostures 322
Mock Heroic Poems 179
Plays founded on Charles Dickens’s Novels 226
Theatrical Burlesques and Travesties 331
Ballades; Rondeaus; Villanelles, etc.
The Ballade (See Swinburne).
The Ballade in Bad Weather. J. Ashby Sterry 64
A Ballade of Old Metres 64
A Young Poet’s Advice 64
Ballade of Old Law Books 65
Ballade of the Honest Lawyer 65
Ballade of Leading Cases 65
Ballade of the Timid Bard 65
Ballade of a Ballade Monger. G. White 85
Ballade of Primitive Man. Andrew Lang 85
Ballade of Primitive Woman. American 85
The Doom of the Muses. H. D. Traill 86
Austin Dobson—Andrew Lang 86
Ballade of the Best Pipe 145
Ballade of Tobacco 145
The Villanelle 65
J’ay perdu ma tourterelle 66
When I saw you last, Rose 66
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66
The Street Singer. Austin Dobson 66
Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley 66
In Wain! Punch 67
Jean Passerat, I like thee well 87
It’s all a trick. W. W. Skeat 87
We are Cook’s Tourists. H. C. Bunner 87
Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair 88
The Triolet (in a Temper) 67
Le premier jour du mois de mai 67
I wished to sing my love 67
How to fashion a Triolet 67
Triolets by Austin Dobson 86
With Pipe and Book 146
The Rondeau (in a Rage) 67
Ma foi, c’est fait de moi 68
You bid me try. Austin Dobson 68
Why do I wander wildly? 68
Culture in the Slums. W. E. Henley 68
That dear old Tune 86
In corsets laced 87
Chant Royal.
Behold the Deeds. H. E. Bunner 68
Rondels.
Two Rondels 68
You bet! you hear me 86
We have a most erotic bard 86
In a Cloud of smoke 146
Roundel.
The cat that sings 87
Robert Browning.
Mr. R. Browning’s objection to Parodies 46
Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black 19
A Motto! Just a catch-word 26
How they brought the Good News from Ulundi to Landsman’s Drift. The World 47
How I won the Challenge Shield 47
The Pied Piper of Hamelin 48
The Bagpiper of Midlothian 48
The Red Piper of Westminster 49
Poets and Linnets. Tom Hood 49
The Quest of Barparlo. Judy 49
Wanting is—what?
Browning is—what? 49
Loving is—what? 49
Wooing is—what? 50
A Billiard Mystery 50
Come is the Comer 50
The Lost Leader.
The Latest News. Fun 50
A Story of Girton 51
The Losing Leader 52
The Patriot, and two Parodies 51
A Parleying with a certain person of no importance (Joseph Chamberlain) 51
Two Sides 52
My Kate 52
Lays of a Lover 52
Post Chronology. O. M. Brown 52
R. Browning’s Lines on the “Jubilee,” and a Parody 52
The Poets at Tea 52
Angelo orders his Dinner. Bayard Taylor 53
Any Pleader to any Student 53
The Cock and the Bull. C. S. Calverley 53
John Jones. The Heptalogia 54
Articles on Robert Browning’s Poems 54
Browning Societies 54
Take them, Chum, the book and me together 55
Austin Dobson.
This was the Pompadour’s Fan 61
A Ballade of the Grosvenor Gallery 61
A Ballade of Five o’clock Tea 62
Ballade of Pot-Pourri 62
Other Ballades, 62, 64
Tu Quoyue (by permission) 62
An Idyll of the Lobby. Pall Mall 63
The Prodigals. W. E. Henley 63
John Dryden.
Alexander’s Feast 169
Shakespeare’s Feast, 1769 170
Prancer’s Feast, 1779 171
The Grand Portsmouth Puppet-show, 1786 171
The Covent Garden Row. (O. P.) 1810 172
Sir Francis Burdett’s Feast, 1814 172
Commemoration Day, 1824 172
Ode to a Wrangler’s Spread 173
The Kennington Common Revolution, 1848 173
Josh Hudson’s Feast 174
Alexander (Henderson’s) Feast, 1884 175
Three Poets, in three distant ages born 175
Parallel passages and imitations 176
The Hind and the Panther.
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse 176
John Keats.
Who killed John Keats? 193
La Belle Dame sans merci 193
Ode on a Jar of Pickles. Bayard Taylor 193
A thing of Beauty is a joy for ever
A Locomotive is a joy for ever 194
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
Biographical Notes, 55, 85
St. James’s Street, and a pirated version 56
St. Giles. Henry S. Leigh 57
Tempora Mutantur! and a Parody 57
Bramble Rise 57
A song at Sixty 57
His Girl 58
An Invitation to Rome 58
Mr. Gladstone in Rome 58
From the Cradle, and a Parody 58
A Gallery of Fair Women 59
Something Praedesque. Mortimer Collins 59
London’s “Suez Canal.” H. C. Pennell 60
Songsters of the Day. Time 60
On Frederick Locker 61
Nursery Rhymes.
Introductory Notes 101
The House that Jack built 101
Hebrew version 101
Political Parodies of this Rhyme 102
Version written for the O. P. Riots 103
Parodies in The Ingoldsby Lyrics 103
The Palace that Nash built 103
The Crystal Palace that Fox built 103
The House that Barry built 103
The Water that John drinks 104
The Show that Sham built 104
The Mine that Lyon struck 104
The Land of Austra-lia 104
The Ship that Jack built 104
The House that John built 104
This is the Radical Bradlaugh 104
This is the Face that Art made 105
The House that any one built 105
The Bicycle that Jack made 105
The House that Tithe built 105
The Mitchelstown Murders 106
This is the Toy. Truth. 106
The Boat that Jack built 106
Behold the Mansion reared by Daedal Jack. E. L. Blanchard 106
The Jubilee Coercion Bill 107
The House that Bowen built 107
The Domiciliary Edifice erected by John 107
A Sermon on this Rhyme 108
Mary had a Little Lamb
Austin Dobson’s Version 88
Robert Browning’s Version 88
H. W. Longfellows’s Version 88
Andrew Lang’s Version 88
A. C. Swinburne’s Version 88
Parodies on “Mary had a Little Lamb” 125
Sing a Song of Sixpence 108
Latin Versions, 108, 109
The Song of the Cover. Bentley’s Miscellany 108
French Version 109
Sing a Song of Christmas 109
A Version in “Pidgin” English 109
Carol forth a Canticle 109
Sing a Song of Season 109
Sing a Song of Dollars 110
Sing a Song of Native Art 110
Sing a Song of Gladness 110
The Cabman’s Shelter. Punch 110
The Song of Science 110
The English Illustrated Magazine 110
Fifty Thousand nimble Shillings 111
Sing a Song of Jingo 111
Sing a Song of Eightpence 111
Sing a Song of Saving 111
The Jubilee Coinage 111
Sing a Song of Gladstone 111
Sing a Song of Scaffolds, of Gunnery, of French Pence, of Chamberlain, of Armaments, of Tricksters, of Libels, of Dynamite 112
Who killed Cock Robin?
Who’ll teach the Prince? Punch, 1843 114
Who killed these Arabs? 114
Who killed Home Rule? 114
Who killed Gladstone? 115
Who won Miss Jenny? 115
Who’ll kill Coercion? 116
Who stole O’Brien’s Breeches? 116
Who killed Cock Warren? 122
Jack and Jill, and Parodies, 116, 122
Hey! Diddle Diddle 117
An Æsthetic Version 117
Mr. Escott’s Version 117
This Pig went to Market. Latin Version 116
The Bells of London Town, and Parodies 113
Mistress Mary, and a Latin Version 117
A Revised Edition 118
Political Parodies 118
Old Mother Hubbard, as a Sermon 118
Little Jack Horner, Latin Versions 119
Little Lord Randy 119
Thirty Days hath September 123
A French Version 123
Dirty days hath September 123
A Summery Summary 123
Mems. for 1885 123
The Three Jovial Huntsmen
he Three Jolly Ratsmen 124
The Three Jovial Welshmen 124
Three Children Sliding on the Ice 124
A Latin Version 124
Thank you, Pretty Cow that made 125
Thank you, Pretty Spotted Snake 125
What are you doing, my Pretty Maid? 128
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, 122, 161
Mica, mica, parva Stella 161
Tinkle, tinkle horrid bell 161
Monument to Temple Bar 162
Shine with Irregular Light 162
Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Water Cart 162
Twinkle, twinkle, Morning Star 162
Tinkle, tinkle, Tramway Car 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Prosecutar 163
Wrinkles, wrinkles, Solar Star 163
Tyndall, Tyndall, Learned Star 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Arc 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Boulanger 164
The Spider and the Fly, by Mary Howitt 164
Will you Migrate to New Zealand 165
The Song of the Bank Director 165
The Irish Spider and the English Fly 166
Will you Walk into our Death-trap? 166
Harcourt and Chamberlain 166
Will you Walk into my Convent? 167
Will you Walk into my Tunnel? 167
Pray Come along to Hawarden 167
Taffy was a Welshman 119
What are Little Boys Made of 120
Dickory, dickory dock 120
Multiplication is Vexation 120
Please to Remember the 5th November 121
Privations Sore 121
Humpty Dumpty 123
Babye Bunting 123
I Love Little Pussy 125
If I had a Donkey 127
Halliwell-Halliwell, My Pretty Man 167
When Great Victoria Ruled the Land 167
I do not like Thee, Dr. Fell 168
I love Thee not Nell 169
Jan, je ne t’aime point 169
Parodies and Poems in Praise of Tobacco.
J. H. Browne’s Imitations of Colley Cibber, A. Phillips, J. Thomson, E. Young, A. Pope, and Jonathan Swift, entitled “A Pipe of Tobacco” 129
Lord Byron. I Had a Dream 135
C. S. Calverley’s Ode to Tobacco 139
Hand me Another Spill 139
E. Cook. I Love It! I Love It! 134
Barry Cornwall. The Pipe, the Pipe 138
Abraham Cowley. The lazy Earth doth Steam amain 148
T. Gray. Elegy on an Old Pipe Box 131
Mrs. Hemans. The Stately Pipes of England 135
O. W. Holmes. Hymn to St. Nicotine 137
Thomas Hood. I Remember, I Remember 134
Horace. An Ode Against Tobacco 131
C. Kingsley. Three Antis went Groaning 138
H. W. Longfellow. Beware! 139
Tobacco Smoke 139
Song of Firewater 140
Song of Nicotine 140
Tell me not in Penny Numbers 140
Come to Me! oh, my Meerschaum 141
The Pipe and the Quid 141
T. Moore. ’Tis a last choice Havana 133
’Tis the last Weed of Hudson’s 133
’Tis my last Mild Havana 134
The Butcher boy down the Road 134
Oh! the Days are gone 134
My Mother. My Hookah! 136
A Pinch of Snuff! 136
My Pipe, Love! 136
My True Cigar! 137
Tobacco! 137
The Weed 137
A Smoke 137
Mrs. Norton. Smoke not, smoke not 135
A. C. Swinburne. Another match 141
Ballade of more Burdens, “This is the cause of every smoker’s ire” 142
W. Shakespeare. To smoke or not to smoke 132
R. B. Sheridan. Here’s to the hookah 132
Walter Scott. Hail to the plant! 133
The weed was rank 133
Alfred Tennyson. The Cigar Smokers 142
Nicotina! 144
O, Darling weed! 144
I come from vaunted root 145
Wordsworth’s Sonnet.
Scorn not the meerschaum 136
Song from the Mikado 145
Ballade of the Best Pipe 145
Ballade of Tobacco 145
In a Cloud of Smoke. Rondel 146
With Pipe and Book 146
On an empty Tobacco Pouch 146
The Smoker’s Alphabet 146
First lines of Songs in Praise of Tobacco.
A Poet’s Pipe am I 155
A Small Boy puffed at a Big Cigar 158
As the Years vanish, Darling 159
Borne from a Short Frail Pipe 152
Certain Fumeur Courtisait une Veuve 149
Come, Lovely Tube by Friendship Blest 152
Contre Les Chagrins de La Vie 153
Contented I sit with my Pipe 153
Charm of the Solitude I Love 155
Come! don’t refuse Sweet Nicotina 157
Critics avaunt, Tobacco is my theme 149
Doux charme de ma Solitude (and Translation) 152
Good, good indeed the Herb’s good Weed 148
For lack o’Tobacco 152
Hail! Social Pipe—thou Foe to care 152
Je suis la Pipe d’un Auteur (and Translation) 155
I flirted first with Cigarettes 150
I owe to Smoking, more or less 159
I sing the Song of the Cigarette 159
J’ ai du bon Tabac 160
Knows he that never took a Pinch? 160
Keep me at hand 157
Let no cold Marble o’er my Body rise 152
Luscious Leaf of Fragrant Savour 149
May the Babylonish curse. Charles Lamb 150
Molière on Tobacco 160
My Pipe to me, thro’ gloom and glee 156
Once your Smoothly Polished Face 154
Pig Tail to Chor (A Letter) 147
Plains-moi, Philippe, mon ami 154
Pipe my Darling, Fate is Snarling 155
Sweet Smoking Pipe 152
Some Praise taking Snuff 154
Some sombre evening, when I sit 155
Some sigh for this and that 157
Smoke, do you? 158
The Pungent, Nose Refreshing Weed 160
The Mighty Thebes 158
The Warmth of thy Glow 158
The Sky it was dark 157
Three Hundred Years ago or soe 157
Thou Cheering Friend 155
Tube, I Love thee as my Life 152
Tell me, Shade of Walter Raleigh 150
Thrice Happy Isles that stole the World’s Delight 149
The Indian Weed withered quite 147
Two Maiden Dames of Sixty-two 148
The Lazy Earth doth steam amain 148
Was this small Plant for thee 147
Weed of the Strange Power 148
When Happy quite and Cosy grown 150
When my Pipe burns bright and clear 153
Why should Life in sorrow be spent 153
When Nobs come oot to walk aboot 154
When Life was all a Summer Day 156
Who Scorns the Pipe? 156
When Strong Perfumes 160
Yes, Social Friend, I Love thee well 158
Political Parodies
Anticipation. R. Tickell, 1778 315
Kings’ and Queens’ Speeches to the Houses of Parliament 316
Punch’s Proclamation, 1878 318
“Ads” of the Future 318
Limited Liability. Daily News 319
Political Manifestoes 319
Saunderson and Waring 319
The Hawarden Block Wood Company 320
Mr. W. E. Gladstone’s Last Will 321
Letters from Political Leaders 321
Prose Parodies.
Addison (Joseph), Prefatory Paper, by 207
Acts of Parliament. On Evening Parties, and on Ladies’ Dress 268
Admiralty Reforms 270
Ainsworth (W. H.), Novels 258
Black, William, Parodies on his Novels 259
Blessington, Countess of, Parodies of 259
Boyle, Robert, Dean Swift’s Parody of 261
Braddon, Miss M. E., Dr. Marchmont’s Misery 257
Selina Sedilia, Bret Harte 259
Bret Harte, The Luck of Tory Camp 242
His Finger. Shotover Papers 243
Brontë, Charlotte. Miss Mix. Bret Harte 259
Broughton, Rhoda. Gone Wrong. F. C. Burnand 259
Bürger G. A. Baron Munchausen, & Imitations 260
Burnaby, Colonel F. The Ride to Khiva, F. C. Burnand 259
Burnett, Mrs. F. H. The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy 255
Carlyle, Thomas. Carlyle on Bloomerism 211
On the Tichborne Trial 211
On Mr. Gladstone’s Portrait 212
On the Parliamentary “Closure” 213
On People of the Present 213
On the Inventories 213
On “The Biglow Papers” 214
Carlyle Redivivus 215
On the Oxford Commemoration 229
The Irish Revolution, 1848 229
Cervantes, Miguel, Parodies of Don Quixote 259
Chesterfield, Lord. Chesterfield Travestie, 1808 253
Lady Chesterfield’s Letters to her daughter 253
Good manners, Punch 253
Churchill, Lord Randolph. The Standard’s varying estimate of him in 1885, 1888 & 1889 256
Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, imitated 259
Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in Tights 242
No Title, Bret Harte 242
The Moonstone & Moonshine 259
Conway, Hugh. Much Darker Days 259
Hauled Back. 1885 259
Day, Thomas. The New History of Sandford & Merton, F. C. Burnand 259
Defoe, Daniel. Imitations of Robinson Crusoe 259
De Quincey, Thomas. A Recent Confession of an Opium Eater 253
Dickens, Charles. Chronological List of his principal Works 224
Parodies from the World, 1879 215
The Age of Lawn Tennis, Pastime 216
C. S. Calverley’s Examination Paper on “Pickwick” 217
Death of Mr. Pickwick 218
The Battle Won by the Wind 218
The Haunted Man. Bret Harte 219
Dombey & Sons, Finished 221
Hard Times, refinished. R. B. Brough 223
The Political Mrs. Gummidge. Punch 224
The Mudfog Association Papers 228
Sam Weller’s Adventures 228
List of Parodies & Imitations of Dickens’s Works 225
Plays founded upon Dickens’s Novels, 226, 259
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), Lothaw
Bret Harte 238
Codlingsby, W. M. Thackeray 239
Nihilism in Russia. The World 239
De Tankard. Puppet Show 240
Tancredi. Cuthbert Bede 241
Ben D’ymion. H. F. Lester 241
The Age of Lawn Tennis 241
A Key to Endymion 242
A Plagiarism, by B. Disraeli 242
A List of Minor Parodies 259
Dumas, Alexander. The Ninety-nine Guardsmen 250
Fielding, Henry. Imitations of Tom Jones 259
Forbes, Archibald. His egotistical style 254
Gore, Mrs. Mammon’s Marriage 259
Haggard, H. Rider, He, 1887 257
“She” dramatised 257
She-that-ought-not-to-be-Played 257
Hee-Hee. Punch 257
Me, a Companion to She 257
King Solomon’s Wives 257
Hugo, Victor. Anticipations of the Derby, 1869 244
One and Three. Punch 247
Thirty-one. C. H. Waring 248
Fantine. Bret Harte 248
Grinplaine. Walter Parke 248
Quel bonheur Marie? 249
The House that Victor built 249
The Spoiler of the Sea 249
The Cat 249
A Manifesto by Victor Hugo 250
Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of a Wheelbarrow 259
James, G. P. R. Parodies of 260
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost on “Drury Lane Theatre” 208
On Book binders, after “Rasselas” 209
Anonymous Journalism 209
Lexiphanes 209
Dinarbas 209
Labouchere, Henry, and Edmund Yates 255
Lamb, Charles. Our New Actors. The World 233
Lever, Charles, Parodies of 260
Lytton, Lord. Parodies of his Plays 251
The Diamond Death. Puppet Show 251
The Dweller of the Threshold. Bret Harte 252
On a Toasted Muffin. Cuthbert Bede 253
The Wrongful Heir. Walter Parke 260
Macaulay, T. B. The Quarterly Reviewer parodies him 234
A Page by Macaulay 234
A Bit of Whig his-Tory 235
The next Armada 235
The Age of Lawn-Tennis 236
The Story of Johnnie Armstrong 236
Marryat, Captain. Mr. Midshipman Breezy. Bret Harte 243
The Flying Dutchman. W. E. Aytoun 232
Menagérie, The. Burlesque Lecture by C. Collette 269
Menu. Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 1878 261
Menu, by Miss Louisa Alcorn 262
Menu. Capital Club Dinner, 1885 262
Lady Morgan’s Wild Irish Girl 254
Munchausen, Baron. Ascribed to G. A. Burger 260
Imitations of 260
Office Rules 268
On Farming 269
“Ouida.” Moll Marine. Light Green 231
The Cambridgeshire Stakes 231
Strapmore. F. C. Burnand 232
Bluebottles. Judy 232
Blue-blooded Bertie. Walter Parke 260
Pepys, Samuel. Imitations of his Diary 260
Prescription for feelin’ bad 262
Programmes. Lords Mayor’s Show, 1884 262
How they’ll open the Inventories 263
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1885 264
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1886 264
Play Bill by Rev. Rowland Hill 265
Prospectuses. Imperial Homeless Hotel Company 266
The Glenmutchkin Railway 266
The Gott-up Hotel Company 266
Horse Shoe Hotel Prospectus 266
Quill Toothpick Attachment Company 267
Reade, Charles. A Parody by F. C. Burnand 260
Regulations in the U.S. Navy 269
Reid, Captain Mayne. The Pale Faced Warriors 244
The Skull Hunters. Walter Parke 244
Richardson, Samuel. Joseph Andrews 257
Apology for Shamela Andrews 257
The History of Clorana, 1737 257
John Ruskin. “That Little Brown-red Butterfly” 229
Mark Twain’s Parody 230
On all Fours Clavigera. Punch 230
On Toothpicks. Shotover Papers 230
Pre-Raffaelitism. Rev. E. Young, 1857 231
Letter to Chesterfield 258
Letter lo the Richmond Baptists 258
On Usury, a Biblical Parody 312
Scott, Sir Walter. Parodies of his Novels 260
Sketchley, Arthur. Mrs. Brown at Cambridge 237
Smart, Hawley. What’s the Odds? F. C. Burnand 260
Smith, Horace. Whitehall, 1827 260
Soyer, Alexis. Camp Cookery 254
The Art of Cookery 254
Military Cookery Book. Punch 254
Stephenson R. L., Parodies of 260
Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey 209
Affecting Appeal 210
The Citizen 211
Fragments in the manner of L. Sterne, and other Imitations 211
Sue Eugene. Sir Brown. Cuthbert Bede 250
Parodie du Juif Errant, and an English Translation 250
Swift, Jonathan. Parodies and Imitations 261
Thackeray, W. M. Parodies of his Novels 261
Trollope, Anthony. Parodies of his Novels 261
Walton, Izaak. The Complete (ly) done Angler 251
The Incompleat Angler 251
Walton’s Angler Imitated 251
Yates, Edmund. “Ba! Ba! Black Sheep” 261
Religious Parodies.
No Parodies introduced which have a tendency to ridicule Religion 288
The Protestants Ave Mary, 1689 288
A Parodie by George Herbert, 1633 289
Luther’s Parody of the Psalms 289
William Hone’s Three Trials 289
John Wilkes’s Catechism 289
The Political Litany 291
The Sinecurist’s Creed 293
Parodies of the Litany 294
The Book Lover’s Litany 297
Parodies of the Creed of St. Athanasius 298
England’s Te Deum to George III 301
Parodies of the Catechism 302
Imitations of the Lord’s Prayer 305
Parodies of the X Commandments 305
Richard Carlile’s Parodies 307
Administration of Loaves and Fishes 307
Chronicles of the Kings of England 309
Imitations of Biblical Phraseology 309
Blackwood’s Chaldee Manuscript 310
The Bible of the Future 310
The Origin of Species. C. Neaves 311
The Positivists. Mortimer Collins 311
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312
A Dean and a Prebendary 314
Parodies of Hymns 314
God Save the Queen 315
Alexander Pope.
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day 176
Ode to Toast-Master Toole. Punch, 1843 177
Ode to Lessee Bunn, of Drury Lane 177
Bonnell Thornton’s Burlesque Ode 178
Mock Heroic Poems, Parodies or Imitations of the Dunciad and the Rape of the Lock 179
The Essay on Man.
The Essay on Woman 182
Eloisa’s Epistle to Abelard.
Eloisa en Déshabille 182
Elegy in an Empty Assembly Room 183
Les Amours d’Abélard et d’Eloise 183
The Rape of the Lock.
The Rape of the Smock 182
The Rape of the Bucket 183
The Rape of the Cake 185
Lo! The Poor Indian, whose Untutor’d Mind 183
Lo! the poor Toper 183
Lo! the lean Indian 183
The Universal Prayer 183
Achilles Speech, a Parody of 184
As when the Moon.
As when an Alderman 184
Pope’s Prologue to Addison’s “Cato,” Parody of 185
Pope’s Imitations of the early Poets 186
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Blooming Damozel 26
Sister Helen.
Apple, and Orange, and Nectarine 70
O Mother Carey, Mother! 70
Mother Eve. Mabel Peacock 70
O, Weary Mother, Drive the Cows to Roost 71
A Twilight Fantasy 71
O, for a Brandy and Soda 71
Butter, and Eggs, and a Pound of Cheese. C. S. Calverley 71
Paper, and Pens, and a Bottle of Ink 72
Agriculture’s Latest Rôle. Punch 72
O, the Dinner was Fine to see. Truth 72
I would I were a Cigarette 73
Ah Night! Blind Germ of Days to be 73
A Goodly Balance is Fair to see 73
O, London Town 74
Cimabuella. Bayard Taylor 74
A Legend of Camelot. Punch 75
The Leaf
Imitazione 75
De la tige détachée 75
Thou Poor Leaf. Lord Macaulay 75
Remember, by Miss Christina Rossetti 76
Remember it. Judy 76
Ding Dong. The Light Green 76
George R. Sims.
Ostler Joe. (By Permission) 35
Teamster Jim. R. J. Burdette 37
“Ostler Joe” and Mrs. J. B. Potter 37
Hustler Jim 37
Billy’s Rose, (By Permission.) 38
Billy’s Nose. F. Rawkins 39
The Lifeboat.
The Tricycle. Cassell’s Journal 39
The Terror of Tadger’s Rents 40
Another “Bagonet” Ballad 40
The Ballad Monger 43
Little Flo’. Truth 43
The Coster’s Plea 44
The Lights of London Town 42
Those Wights of London Town 42
The Lights o’ Ascot Heath 42
Sally 44
Christmas Day in the Beer House 45
A Coster’s Conversion 45
Slang, Cant, and Flash Songs.
The House Breaker’s Song 271
Nix my Dolly, Pals, Fake away 271
Dear Bill, this Stone Jug 271
The Chick-a-Leary Cove 272
The Thieves’ Chaunt 272
Dartmoor is a tidy place 272
Joe quickly his sand had Sold 272
Millbank for thick shins 272
The Beggar’s Curse (1609) 273
Clear out—Look sharp 273
Frisky Moll’s Song 273
Ye Morts and ye Dells 274
Ode to the King of the Mendicants 274
Oath of the Canting Crew 274
Life and Death of the Darkman’s Budge 274
The Game of High Toby 275
The Double Cross 275
Flash Anecdote, and Translation 275
The Leary Man 276
Song of the Young Prig 276
Death of Socrates 277
’Arry at a Political Picnic 277
Life in Gaol. The Chequers 279
The Twenty Craftsmen 279
Retoure my Dear Dell 280
The Pickpockets’ Chaunt 280
A Cant Handbill 281
W. H. Ainsworth on Slang and Cant 281
The Printer’s Epitaph 282
Books of Reference on Slang and Cant 282
Continental Books on “Argot,” or Slang 285
American and Colonial Slang 285
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Before the Beginning of Years 1
American Parody 1
Before the Beginning of Post 1
Now in the Railway Years 2
For Winter’s Rains and Ruins are Over 2
For Mayfair’s Balls and Ballets are over 2
Dolores and Poems and Ballads 2
When Waters are Rent with Commotion 2
Pain and Travel. Fun 5
Our Lady Champagne. Judy, 6, 26
Mosquitos Again. J. B. Stephens 6
Brandy and Soda. H. Howard 7
Our M.D. of Spain. Punch 7
Octopus. The Light Green 8
Procuratores. Shotover Papers 8
Oh, Vanished Benevolent Bobby 8
Oh, Nymph with the Nicest of Noses 9
O Blood-bitten Lip all Aflame 16
Stylites. Walter Parke 18
Thou Magpie and Stump 22
The Days of the Dunces are Over 31
All pale from the past we draw nigh thee 33
“Disgust,” a Parody of “Despair” 22
O Season supposed of all Free Flowers 22
I trow, Wild Friends. S. K. Cowan 23
Ah! Love, if Love lie still. J. M. Lowry 23
Also Thine Eyes were Mild 23
The God and the Damosel, 1879. The World 23
Soft is the Smell of it 24
I See the Sad Sorrow 24
A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo 25
The Pigmy and Portative Horner 26
I Sing of the Months 27
I am the Lady of Shalott 27
Strophes from a Song after Moonrise 28
Is not this the First Lord of Your Choice? 31
The Ballad of Burdens 3
A Burden of Foul Weathers 3
The Burden of Strange Seasons 4
The Burden of Long Fielding 4
The Burden of Hard Hitting 5
The Burden of Old Women 5
How Jack Harris became Æsthetic 17
The Lay of Macaroni. Bayard Taylor 17
To Ada I. Menken. The Tomahawk 18
Parody of A. C. S. by Mortimer Collins 19
“O Cool in the Summer is Salad.” 19
Between the Gate Post and the Gate 21
A Song after Sunset 21
Oh, April Showers 21
“The Heptalogia.” Nephelidia 21
Ballad of Dreamland.
I hid my Head on a Rug from Moses 17
The Sorest stress of the Season’s over 18
She hid herself in the Soirée Kettle 16
A Century of Roundels 25
Far-fetched and dear bought 25
What Gain were mine 25
Magician of Song and of Sound 25
A Trio of Roundels 26
March. An Ode 26
Another Ode to March 27
The Commomweal 29
The Question 29
The Answer. The Daily News 29
The “Question” answered. Truth 29
A Match.
“If Love were what the Rose is” 9
If You were Queen of Bloaters 9
If Life were never Bitter. M. Collins 10
If you were an Elector. E. Hamilton 10
If you were what your Nose is 10
If I were Big Nat Langham. Punch 11
I am your Dr. Jekyll 11
If it be but a Dream or a Vision 16
If I were Anglo-Saxon. Punch 20
If Love were dhudeen olden 141
The Interpreters 11
Parodies from The Weekly Dispatch 12
Imparadised by my Environment 13
Parody from The Family Herald 13
Home, Sweet Home, à la Swinburne 13
Short Space shall be Hereafter 14
Vaccine after Faustine 14
A Song after Sunset. Judy 15
The Mad, Mad Muse. R. J. Burdette 15
I have made me an End of the Moods 16
Clear the Way! 30
Rail Away! Punch 30
A Word for the Navy 30
A Word for the Poet 30
The Palace of Bric-à-Brac 32
Baby, see the flowers! 32
England, what of the fight? 32
Oh, thy swift, subtle, slanting, services 32
Mr. Swinburne’s prose writings, 32, 205
The Session of the Poets. R. Buchanan 33
Paddy Blake on Swinburne 34
An Utter Passion uttered Utterly. Kottabos 81
Lines on a Dead Dog. College Rhymes 204
The Song of Sir Palamede. H. G. Cone “With flow exhaustless of alliterate words.” 205
Martin Farquhar Tupper.
Cuthbert Bede’s Parody 89
The Queen of Oude 89
Beer, that hath entered my head 90
Philosophy of Sausages 90
The Fall of Tupper 90
Going to the Wash 90
Tupper in the Clouds. Andrew Lang 90
The Welcome to the Princess Alexandra 168
Oscar Wilde.
Biographical Memoranda 78
Sala on “Requiescat” 78
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66
There’s Oscar Wylde, that Gifted Chylde 79
What a Shame and what a Pity 79
Narcissus in Camden. The Century 79
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman 79
Oscar Interviewed. Punch 80
Sainte Margérie. An Imitation 81
Oh, fainting of Lilies with broken stem 81
Meseem’d that Love. Kottabos 81
Consummate Dish! full many an ancient Crack 81
Impressions, by Oscuro Wildegoose 81
A List of Parodies on O. W. 82
The Public House 82
Five-and-Seventy Maidens, free 82
A Barrel of Beer and a Glass of Gin hot 83
Sing hey! Potatoes and Paint. H. C. Waring 83
Arnold, Matthew. The Forsaken Merman 200
The Saturday Review on Arnold’s poems 200
Parody by W. H. Mallock 200
Christmas Thoughts. The World 201
Bloomfield, Robert. The Bishop’s wish. Punch 192
The Pot Boy. C. Thirlwall 192
Butler, Samuel. Parodies and Imitations of Hudibras 259
Calverley, C. S. On the River 84
Collins, Mortimer. The Birds 19
Oh, Summer said to Winter 206
Lady, very fair are you 206
Careless Rhymer, it is True 206
Comic History of England. In verse 207
Cornwall, Barry. The Omnibus 322
Country Quarter Session. Three or Four Parsons 203
Two or three facts 203
Two or three “dears” 203
Crabbe, Rev. G. The Theatre. Rejected Addresses 94
Cross Readings 287
Cumulative Parodies 270
Darwin, Dr. Erasmus. Now stood Eliza 198
Parody on above from Diogenes 199
The Loves of the Plants. The Loves of the Triangles 199
The Loves of the Lowlier Plants 200
Natural Selection. Founded on Darwin 200
Miss, I’ m a Pensive Protoplasm. S. Brooks 200
Parody Epitaph on Darwin 200
Æsthetic School, The 69
Fitzgerald, W. T. Britons to Arms! 95
Loyal Effusion. Rejected Addresses 96
Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera. Parodies of songs in 198
George Barnwell. Parody, Rejected Addresses 96
“Sam,” by Shirley Brooks 97
Heber, Dr. Reginald. From Greenland’s icy Mountains 98
From Cashmere’s icy Mountains 98
Address to Women Missionaries 98
From Chatham’s pleasant Mountains 99
Horaces’s Odes.
Buttons you booby. Shirley Brooks 197
On the Commencement of Term 197
Thackeray’s Versions 198
November, 1858 198
Railway Horace 198
Ingelow, Miss Jean. The Apple-Woman’s Song 195
Calverley’s Parodies of above 196
Lovers, and a Reflection 196
The Shrimp Gatherers. Bayard Taylor 196
The Letter L. Daily News 197
I am Colonel North of the Horse Marines,
Financial News 203
Johnson, Dr. Samuel. Ode to a Girl in the Temple, 1777 188
Parody of Dr. Johnson’s “Prologue” for Drury Lane in 1847 188
Last Arrival, The. G. W. Cable 270
Leigh, Henry S. The Twins 100
In the Strand. Judy 100
Lorne, Marquis of. Guido and Lita Parodied 202
Lost Chord, The. The Lost Chord. G. R. Sims 45
The Lost Shot. Corporal 45
The Legislative Organ 128
Lyttelton’s Ode, & a Parody by Tobias Smollett 187
Macaronic Poems. The Death of the Sea Serpent 327
Mallet, David. William and Margaret 91
French and Latin Versions 92
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost 92
Giles Scroggin’s Ghost 93
A Polished Version of the same 93
Mock Heroic Poems, and Imitations of the Dunciad 179
Morris, Lewis. The Imperial Institute Ode 99
The Ode as it ought to have been. Truth 99
Poet and Poetaster. The Star 100
Morris, William. The Volsung Tale 26
Behold the Works of W. Morris 76
In the Cushioned Abbey Pew 76
All Sides of the River. Once a Week 77
The Monthly Parodies, after Morris’s “Earthly Paradise.” Gleeson White 77
Nutshell Novels 202
Oldest Classical Burlesque Battle of the Frogs and Mice 328
Patmore, Coventry. The Baby in the House. S. Brooks 194
The Spoons. Puppet Show Album 195
The Person of the House. Heptalogia 229
Poetical Criticism from the Athenæum 229
Pygmalion; or, the Statue Fair. Hornet 326
Rowe, Nicholas. Colin’s Complaint 186
Corydon Querens 186
A Parody by George Canning 187
Bow Bells. Henry S. Leigh 187
Scott, Clement W. The Women of Mumble’s Head. The Wreck of the steamship “Puffin” 46
A Tale of the 10th Hussars, and a Parody on it 46
The Garden of Sleep 46
Scott, Sir Walter. Paddy Dunbar. (Young Lochinvar) 161
O’Shaughnessy. Arthur W. E.
Blue Moonshine. F. G. Stokes 83
Frangipanni. Judy 83
On the River 84
Spenser, Edmund. List of works written in the Spenserian stanza. J. Bouchier 189
The Alley. Alexander Pope 189
The Holidayer. Funny Folks 189
Sterry J. Ashby. Georgy 84
The Muse in Manacles 64
Swift, Jonathan. The State Coach 190
The Happy Life of a Country Parson. A. Pope 191
The Logicians Refuted. O. Goldsmith 191
A New Simile. O. Goldsmith 191
Tennyson, Alfred. King Arthur, growing very tired 20
The Cigar-Smokers 142
Nicotina. (Oriana) 144
The Weed. (The Brook) 145
“Vernon Avick.” Song on Sir W. Vernon Harcourt 34
Watts, Dr. How Doth the Nasty Dirty Man 138
’Twas the Voice of the Doctor 138
White, Henry Kirke. It is not that my Lot is low 188
It is not that my “Place” was low 188
Wilson’s Isle of Palms, imitated by James Brown 192
Transcriber’s Note:
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations, inconsistent hyphenation, or non-standard use of apostrophes. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.
Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. Numbers 11. and 12. were added to Les Commandements de la Presse.
Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. The use of quotation marks is not standard, and generally was not changed unless needed for clarity. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. There are two anchors for Footnote [47]. Anchors for [286] and [322] were unprinted; anchors were added where they may belong.
The St. James’s Street ballad and its parody are presented in sequence, not side by side.
Spelling corrections:
shall the mandate he/be spoken
first appeared in the colums/columns
in lines of unequal lengths ocasionally/occasionally
the/she sit down and weep,
Michelstown’s/Mitchelstown’s murderous shot
bicylist/bicyclist to his lamp:
Dose schillen did ask it, dot schoolemaster/schoolmaster
written by H. B. Farmie/Farnie
Keats’s ‘Imitation of Spencer/Spenser
And as, forsooth, such cates/cakes
Swowflakes/Snowflakes white,
friend of mine took notige/notice of
shamless/shameless, unreasonable, treasonable
man with hugh/huge bush of beard
and on potatoe/potato cans
sandy loams of Cambridshire/Cambridgeshire
magnificently-dessicated/desiccated veins
The formost/foremost wins!
apophthegm/apothegm
we shall now Retreive/Retrieve
Luxurously/Luxuriously rolling in coaches
Superviser/Supervisor the servant
insufficent/insufficient to prevent it
preface to the Pantomine/Pantomime
copywright/copyright