Virgile travesti

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Virgile travesti is a 17th-century burlesque parody of Virgil’s Aeneid by French writer Paul Scarron, known for its comic and satirical reworking of the classical epic.

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instanceOf French literature
burlesque poem
literary work
parody
author Paul Scarron NERFINISHED
basedOn Aeneid NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Virgil NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublicationPlace Paris NERFINISHED
genre burlesque
comic poetry
satire
hasMainCharacter Aeneas NERFINISHED
Anchises NERFINISHED
Dido NERFINISHED
Juno NERFINISHED
Venus NERFINISHED
hasPart book 1
book 10
book 11
book 12
book 2
book 3
book 4
book 5
book 6
book 7
book 8
book 9
hasSubject Trojan hero Aeneas’ adventures
influencedBy Italian burlesque poetry
Virgil NERFINISHED
languageRegister colloquial French
literaryForm poetry
literaryInfluenceOn later French mock-epic poetry
literaryPeriod Classical age of French literature
movement Baroque literature NERFINISHED
narrativeForm mock-epic
notableFor burlesque treatment of classical epic conventions
comic reworking of Virgil’s Aeneid
originalLanguage French
parodies Aeneid NERFINISHED
partOf French burlesque tradition
publicationCentury 17th century
theme comic distortion of mythological figures
mockery of heroic ideals
satire of classical epic tradition
usesStyle burlesque
parodic rewriting

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Paul Scarron notableWork Virgile travesti