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en-wikipedia-org-9330		Victorian burlesque - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3233	321	70	Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza,[1] is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid-19th century. Later in the Victorian era, burlesque mixed operetta, music hall and revue, and some of the large-scale burlesque spectacles were known as extravaganzas.[8] The English style of burlesque was successfully launched in New York in the 1840s by the manager and comedian William Mitchell, who had opened his Olympic Theatre in December 1839. the plays themselves did not normally tend to indecency."[4] Some contemporary critics took a sterner view; in an 1885 article, the critic Thomas Heyward praised Planché ("fanciful and elegant") and Gilbert ("witty, never vulgar"), but wrote of the genre as a whole, "the flashy, 'leggy', burlesque, with its 'slangy' songs, loutish 'breakdowns', vulgar jests, paltry puns and witless grimacing at all that is graceful and poetic is simply odious.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9330.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9330.txt