A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it, but a parody
Allegory of the Tulipomania [de], persiflage on the tulip mania, by Jan Brueghel the Younger (1640s)
Reggie Brown, a voice actor and Barack Obama impersonator
Satirical political cartoon that appeared in Puck magazine, October 9, 1915. Caption "I did not raise my girl to be a voter" parodies the anti-World War I song "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman.
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The Dunciad is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess, Dulness, and the pro
Alexander Pope, author of The Dunciad
Frontispiece and front page to The Dunciad Variorum (1729).
Frontispiece Book II of 1760 London edition of Pope's works (Vol V), showing the Goddess surrounded by sleeping poets.
Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl