摘要：In his book Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century, Richard Schoch demonstrates the ways in which Shakespeare’s works were frequently burlesqued in the music halls of the nineteenth century: through parodies directly adapting Shakespearean playtexts; by newly created works that sent up Shakespearean conventions; and in song and dance. Musical performances often combined traditional texts with popular songs or offered up new tunes to explicate or parody the actions or particular scenes in a play, usually in conjunction with some satire aimed at the leading actors and/or politicians of the day. By these means, the plotlines and characters of Shakespeare’ s plays were made widely known, even among non-theatre-going populations, those with only basic educations, and even the illiterate.
