Burlesque Shows and Censorship (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Early nineteenth century burlesque shows, such as those at New York’s Olympic Theater under William Mitchell, mocked fashionable drama, events, and people. During the mid-nineteenth century burlesque shows increasingly featured female entertainers. In actress and manager Laura Keene’s Seven Sisters (1860), for example, almost all roles were played by women dressed in costumes considered highly revealing at the time. This evoked criticism, which increased in 1868, when Lydia Thompson brought her troupe, the British Blondes, to New York to present...
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