Crossword-Solution: BURLETTA 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Their first joint production was a farce, or rather play, in three acts, called "Jupiter," written in imitation of the burletta of Midas, whose popularity seems to have tempted into its wake a number of these musical parodies upon heathen fable.

This burletta helps to develop the plan which it is the intention of the "council" to follow up in their agonising efforts to resuscitate the expiring drama.

What were then called the "burletta houses" were permitted performances of dancing, singing, tumbling, juggling--anything, indeed, but _speech_ unaccompanied by music.

The old language of gesture, with perhaps the occasional resort to a placard to supplement and interpret the "dumb motions" of the performers (a concession to, or an evasion of the old prohibition of speech in the "burletta houses"), vanished from the stage.

With Chatterton's acknowledged writings we have nothing here to do; they include satires in the manner of Churchill, political letters in the manner of Junius, squibs, lampoons, verse epistles, elegies, "African eclogues," a comic burletta, "The Revenge"--played at Marylebone Gardens shortly after his death--with essays and sketches in the style that the _Spectator_ and _Rambler_ had made familiar: "The Adventures of a Star," "The Memoirs of a Sad Dog," and the like.