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A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a parody, or grossly inferior imitation.In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to: Burlesque, a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
Some also use the term travesty, ending with the letter y, to mean the same as travesti, but sounding more artistic, subversive, or decolonial. [51] [52]
The word means "disguised" in French. Depending on sources, the term may be given as travesty, [1] [2] travesti, [3] [4] or en travesti.The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English explains the origin of the latter term as "pseudo-French", [5] although French sources from the mid-19th century have used the term, e.g. Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l'opéra (1876), La ...
Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, [1] is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid-19th century.
"If he is executed, I believe that it will be a travesty of justice," Drummond said in an interview. Glossip, now 61, was convicted in 1998 of a murder-for-hire scheme. After an appeals court ...
A staple of burlesque was the display of attractive women in travesty roles, dressed in tights to show off their legs, but the plays themselves were seldom more than modestly risqué. [25] Burlesque became the speciality of certain London theatres, including the Gaiety and Royal Strand Theatre from the 1860s to the early 1890s.
Top Gear’s take: “EQ has tanked (else why would Mercedes be slowly dropping that name, like on the new electric G-Wagen), while the hybrid C63 is a travesty. Mercedes badly needs a tech-led ...
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