 Irving, never having seen the show, objected, and the Lord Chamberlain (Britain's theatrical censor, who also had not seen the show) prohibited the caricature.This type of burlesque, or "travesty", was popular in Britain during the Victorian era.Other examples include "The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole" (1877), "Blue Beard" (1882), "Ariel" (1883, by F. C. Burnand), "Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed" (1883), "Little Jack Sheppard" (1885), "Monte Cristo Jr." (1886), "Miss Esmeralda" (1887), "Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim" (1887), "Mazeppa", "Faust up to Date" (1888), "Carmen up to Data" (1890), "Cinder Ellen up too Late" (1891) and "Don Juan" (1892, with lyrics by Adrian Ross).