Hi Starship
Thanks for the heads up.
Yes at £28 for 10 pages I think I'll give this a miss.

Despite the title 'Ballad Burlesques' it seems to be coming at it from the ballad operas which in themselves were burlesques, but I'm looking specifically at individual ballads that were burlesqued. The writer may cover that in later pages but seems to be heading more towards the theatrical burlesques of which there were many. I'm looking at it from a lower artistic level such as what was sung in the coal cellars and embryonic music halls and indeed eventually on the streets. The last song on my list above however was definitely produced as part of a burlesque drama, 'Little Jack Sheppard' of 1885 as it was a burlesque of an earlier broadside ballad which entered oral tradition.