The word first appears in a title in Francesco Berni's Opere burlesche of the early 16th century, works that had circulated widely in manuscript before they were printed. For a time, burlesque verses were known as poesie … 展开

Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as "travesty" or "extravaganza", was popular in London theatres between the 1830s and the 1890s. It took the form of 展开

• Cabaret
• Nightclub act
• Striptease 展开

• Ruckus! American Entertainments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century From the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
• Classic Burlesque: We Aim to Tease – slideshow by Life magazine 展开

Classical music
Beginning in the early 18th century, the term burlesque was used throughout Europe to describe musical works in which serious and comic elements were juxtaposed or combined to achieve a grotesque effect. As … 展开

American burlesque shows were originally an offshoot of Victorian burlesque. The English genre had been successfully staged in New York from … 展开

1. ^ "Burlesque", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, accessed 16 February 2011 (subscription required)
2. ^ In theatrical use, a burla was "a comic interlude or practical joke introduced, usually extempore, into a … 展开