Bowdlerize.To delete from an edition of literary work passages considered by the editor to be indecent or indelicate
Rev.Thomas Bowdler "Family Shakespeare" (1818)
Burlesque = parody
John Phillips The Splendid Shilling (1705)
Parodied the epic style of of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews(1742)
Jane Austen poked poked good natures fun at the genre of the gothic novel in Northanger Abbey (1818)
A Christmas Garland (1912) Max Beerbohm.
Samuel Butler's Hudibras (1663) satirized the rigid puritanism by describing the adventures of a puritan knight,Sir Hudibras.
The travesty - mocks a particular work by treating its lofty subject in a grotesquely undignified manner and style.
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