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PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a See also:song sung beside, a comic parallel)  , an See also:imitation of the See also:form or See also:style of a serious See also:writing in See also:matter of a meaner See also:kind so as to produce a ludicrous effect . See also:Parody is almost as old in See also:European literature as serious writing . The See also:Batrachomyomachia, or " See also:Battle of the Frogs and Mice," a See also:travesty of the heroic epos, was ascribed at one See also:time to See also:Homer himself; and it is probably at least as old as the 5th See also:century B.C . The See also:great tragic See also:poetry of See also:Greece very soon provoked the parodist . See also:Aristophanes parodied the style of See also:Euripides in the Acharnians with a comic See also:power that has never been surpassed . The debased See also:grand style of See also:medieval See also:romance was parodied in See also:Don Quixote . See also:Shakespeare parodied the extravagant heroics of an earlier See also:stage, and was himself parodied by See also:Marston, incidentally in his plays and elaborately in a roughly humorous See also:burlesque of See also:Venus and See also:Adonis . The most celebrated parody of the Restoration was See also:Buckingham's See also:Rehearsal (1672), in which the tragedies of See also:Dryden were inimitably ridiculed . At the beginning of the 18th century The Splendid See also:Shilling of See also:John See also:Philips (1676–1709), which See also:Addison said was " the finest burlesque poem in the See also:English See also:language," brilliantly introduced a See also:fashion for using the See also:solemn See also:movement of See also:Milton's See also:blank See also:verse to celebrate ridiculous incidents . In 1736, See also:Isaac See also:Hawkins See also:Browne (1705–176o) published a See also:volume, A See also:Pipe of See also:Tobacco, in which the poetical styles of See also:Colley See also:Cibber, See also:Ambrose Philips, See also:James Thom-son, See also:Edward See also:Young and See also:Jonathan See also:Swift were delightfully reproduced . In the following century, See also:Shelley and John See also:Hamilton See also:Reynolds almost simultaneously produced cruel imitations of the naivete and baldness of See also:Wordsworth's See also:Peter See also:Bell (1819) . But in that See also:generation the most celebrated parodists were the See also:brothers See also:Smith, whose Rejected Addresses may be regarded as classic in this kind of artificial See also:production .

The Victorian See also:

age has produced a plentiful See also:crop of parodists in See also:prose and in verse, in dramatic poetry and in lyric poetry . By See also:common consent, the most subtle and dexterous of these was C . S . See also:Calverley, who succeeded in reproducing not merely tricks of phrase and See also:metre, but even manneristic turns of thought . In a later See also:day, Mr See also:Owen See also:Seaman has repeated; and sometimes surpassed, the agile feats of Calverley .

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