A travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a

parody A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satire, satirical or irony, ironic imitation. Often its subject is an Originality, original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, e ...

, or grossly inferior imitation. In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to: *

Burlesque 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.

, 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 *

Travesti (theatre) Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex. For social reasons, female roles were played by boys or men in many early forms of theatre, and ''travesti'' roles continued to be use ...

(also spelled ''travesty''), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex *

Victorian burlesque Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid-19th century. It is a form of parody in which a well-known oper ...

, a genre of theatrical entertainment popular in Victorian England and New York theatre in the mid-19th century *Travesty generator or parody generator, a computer program that generates nonsensical text (travesty), often based on statistics of an input text * Travesty (literature), a literary genre in which the plot of an actual myth or a serious literary work in retold in a comical form

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