Blue-Beard (after Jacques Offenbach's version) and Darnley in the successful The Field of the Cloth of Gold.

America and later years

rightShe headed a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences by adding topical and local references and reworking the lyrics of popular songs. The genre of burlesque was novel in America. Thompson's adaptations

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