Parody

For the ancient Greeks, parody was a comic imitation of a serious poem. "Parody," in Greek and Roman times, referred to (1) "a poem of burlesque or parody in the Homeric style, mock epic", (2) various kinds of imitation, quotation, adaptation, and paraphrase usually comic but not necessarily so; and (3) punning and wordplay. Parody renders its subject's form, style and language ludicrous. A parody is a composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally for comic effect and often by applying that style to an outlandish or inappropriate subject.


References

Graham Ley (1 February 2012). A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater: Revised Edition. Parody: University of Chicago Press. pp. 74–. ISBN 978-0-226-15467-1.

Robert Chambers (2010). Parody: The Art that Plays with Art. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-0869-3.

Margaret A. Rose (9 September 1993). Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-modern. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-42924-5.

Donald Sells (13 December 2018). Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-06053-1.

James Robson; James E. Robson (2006). Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes. Tragic Parody: Gunter Narr Verlag. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-3-8233-6220-3.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/263900

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Alfred Cary Schlesinger
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The Basis of Ancient Parody
F. J. Lelièvre
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Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
https://www.jstor.org/stable/641056

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Alfred Cary Schlesinger
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Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/283243

Demosthenes, Parody and the "Frogs"
Filippomaria Pontani
Mnemosyne
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/27736351

Sick Humour: Aristophanic Parody of a Euripidean Motif?
F. D. Harvey
Mnemosyne
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/4430022

Aristophanes and Sophron?
Lloyd W. Daly
The American Journal of Philology
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Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Euripides' parody of Aeschylus
Godfrey W. Bond
Hermathena
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"Deinon Eribremetas": The Sound and Sense of Aeschylus in Aristophanes' "Frogs"
Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger
The Classical World
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Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States
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