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'Lynch's exploration of nineteenth-century Australian burlesque argues that while colonial Australia participated in a larger irreverent, comic culture of popular medievalism, its apparent irreverence toward the Middle Ages sometimes in fact belied a nagging sense that modern Australian public life could only be a base parody of an illustrious European past ('Medievalism, Nationalism, Colonialism', p.4)
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Marvellous Melbourne's Middle Ages : The Burlesque Extravaganzas of W. M. Akhurst
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Literary Studies
Subjects:
- King Arthur ; Or, Launcelot the Loose, Gin-Ever the Square, the Knights of the Round Table, and Other Furniture 1868 single work musical theatre
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1850-1880
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