Dr. Marissa Vigneault

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · A Teasing History Of Burlesque · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

And just the word itself.

So burlesque, it's French, but that comes from the Italian, the root burla.

And burla means like comedy, to joke, to laugh, to parody, whatever.

And it's meant to be something like fun and lighthearted, but it's also like a send up, right?

And so those early kind of forms of the burlesque always had the comedic element to it, but it was also a taking down of high culture, right?

And it was meant to be a sort of like, I'm going to prick you in this idea of like, ooh, opera and Shakespeare and the ballet as being upper class and fancy.

Like, we're going to take you down quite a few notches with this.

And so that early burlesque, if we think about like early 1800s English theater or the saloons or the back rooms of pubs and stuff,

it had this class element to it as well that was very much an awareness of we're more working class, we're more of that like economic middle ground here.

And so we're going to rib the upper class and their perceived fanciness of it.

And so that early use of burlesque meant more something like theaters, right?

But theater is up for the middle class kind of audience there.

And so that's a very strong influence.

And the other one comes out of French traditions of the tableau vivant, which has a German kind of connection to it as well.

But this staging of works of art, classical works of art on stage, but using...

body stockings or tights and things that were like beginning to show off the body more on stage.

And that also corresponds with this shift that's happening in ballet at the time period as well, where we know like ballet and its origins and beginnings, it was men and men wear tights and heels and would show off these beautiful legs of theirs.

But it was like in the early 1800s that that begins to shift to the female body and

Around the 1830s, we see the first appearance of female ballerinas and prima ballerinas on stage with the introduction of pink tights, which was meant to give this very fleshy appearance.

You get glimpses of my leg.

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