burletta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of burletta
1740–50; < Italian, equivalent to burl ( a ) jest ( see burlesque) + -etta -ette
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This proving a success was immediately followed by a burletta, entitled The Opera of Operas, based on Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
We move ourselves—they are moved by wires; but we do just the same things—we are life and we are art, in the burletta we are both.
From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by J. H. Shorthouse
So now "burletta licenses" were issued, under cover of which melodramas were presented, with entertainments of music and dancing, spectacle and pantomime.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
This burletta helps to develop the plan which it is the intention of the “council” to follow up in their agonising efforts to resuscitate the expiring drama.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 by Various
Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
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