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

But burlesque in its early, burlesque in vaudeville, there's a lot of similarities going on there.

So we get always the comedian, right?

Because that idea of the burla, the laugh, the joke, it always has to be there.

So we get comedy.

We get acts of dancing.

We get the tableau vivant.

Mm-hmm.

All of that starts to come in at that moment.

But it's meant to be a variety act, right?

And so when you do see the women performing on stage, it is more dancing.

And the scandalous part of it is that they're wearing tights or that you see like a little bit of reveal of, say, a collarbone or something like that.

But there's not full on stripping going on.

No, no.

And what begins to happen, especially in the late 19th century and early 20th century, is that there's a separation that really like the gap begins to be more noticeable between vaudeville and what gets named as burlesque.

And that term, that term actually arrives with Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes.

That's the first time it's used in the American press.

And it gets connected with this idea of like female performance and the female body on stage.

And the spectacle with that as well.

So vaudeville, it really orients itself towards middle class, but respectable middle class, right?

A place where middle class women could go and be in the audience and they could enjoy some good, clean fun where there's no smoking and there's no drinking and there's no rowdiness, right?

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