Rachel Bryant Davies is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and an Early Career Associate with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Troy, Carthage and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (2018).

Online Materials
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1. Classical burlesque and Homeric epic
Victorian Homer
Homer burlesqued
Ancient and modern
Notes on editions, running commentary, and textual annotations
2. Thomas Dibdin, Melodrama Mad! Or, the Siege of Troy (1819, Surrey)
3. James Robinson Planché with Charles Dance, Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso (1834, Olympic)
4. Robert B. Brough, The Siege of Troy; a Burlesque (1858, Lyceum)
5. Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War (1865, St James')
6. List of Epic Burlesques

List of references cited
Index