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Burlesque on Ben-Hur, c. 1900. A burlesque is 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. [1] The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery. [2] [3]
Arabella Fermor, a 19th-century print after Sir Peter Lely's portrait of her. The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. [1] One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos (334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in ...
The first edition of Kotliarevsky's Eneyida, 1798. Eneida (Ukrainian: Енеїда, lit. 'Aeneid') is a burlesque poem in the Ukrainian language, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798.
Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect. Alternatively, it can mean verse which has a monotonous rhythm, easy rhyme, and cheap or trivial meaning. The word is derived from the Middle English dogerel, probably a derivative of dog. [1]
She wrote a long burlesque poem. [2] Born on 1 October 1665 in Surrey, England, Mary Evelyn was the eldest daughter of John Evelyn (1620 –1706), royal diarist, and his wife Mary Browne (1632–1709), English letter writer. [1] [3] Evelyn spent her childhood at her family home, Sayes Court, in Deptford, Kent. She was a self-educated and known ...
Tifi Odasi is best known as the author of Macaronea, a burlesque poem mixing Latin and Italian dialects (Tuscan and Venetian of Padua). [1] Some scholars conjecture that Tifi Odasi was the author of Nobile Vigoncae opus ("The Work of Noble Vigonza"), another work in macaronic Latin. [2] The attribution is not widely accepted, however. [3]
Saint-Amant has left a considerable body of poetry. His Albion and Rome ridicule set the fashion of the burlesque poem. In his later years he devoted himself to serious subjects and produced an epic, Moyse sauvé (1653). His other work consists of Bacchanalian songs, his Débauche being one of the most remarkable convivial poems of its kind. [1]
A remarkable burlesque poem Polemo Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (printed anonymously in 1684) has been persistently, and with good reason, ascribed to him. It is a mock-heroic tale, in macaronic Latin enriched with Scottish Gaelic expressions, of a country feud on the Fife lands of his old friends the Cunninghams.