Virgile travesti
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Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid Disguised, 1633).[1] This early example of French burlesque literature[2] is notable for introducing the word travesty[3] into English.[4] Produced in eight volumes, the last book in the work was not published until 1659.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Morillot, Paul (1888). Scarron: étude biographique et littéraire. Paris: Lecène et Oudin. pp. 191–193.
- ^ "Le Virgile travesti". lister.history.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ Terry, Richard G. (2005). Mock-heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754606239.
- ^ "Travesty - literature".
- ^ Yale French studies. Yale French Studies. 1967. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
External links
[edit]- Braund, Susanna (1 June 2019). "Travesty: The Ultimate Domestication of Epic". classicsforall.org.uk.