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:
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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
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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
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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
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parody generator
Parody generators are computer programs which generate text that is syntactically correct, but usually meaningless, often in the style of a technical paper or a particular writer. They are also called travesty generators and random text generato ...
, a computer program that generates nonsensical text (travesty), often based on statistics of an input text
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Travesty (literature) Travesty is a comical or satirical literary genre, commonly a poetry, in which the plot of a well-known myth or a serious literary work in retold in a comical form.[Travesti (gender identity)
The term travesti is used in Latin America to designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an attempt to further distinguish it from cross ...]
, a term used in South American cultures for a person who was born male but has a feminine gender identity
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Travesties
''Travesties'' is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centres on the figure of Henry Wilfred Carr, Henry Carr, an old man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during World War I, the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he w ...
'', a comedy by Tom Stoppard (1974)
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Texas Travesty
The ''Texas Travesty'' is a student-produced satirical newspaper created and produced at the University of Texas at Austin.
The ''Travesty'' began in 1997 as an independent, online-only publication by the Butler brothers: Kevin Butler (a forme ...
'', a humor magazine published by students at the University of Texas at Austin
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