Look up travesty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A travesty is an
absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a
parody, or grossly inferior imitation. In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to:
Burlesque, 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) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex
Victorian burlesque, 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
See also
Travesti (gender identity), a term used in South American cultures for a person who was born male but has a feminine gender identity
Texas Travesty, a humor magazine published by students at the University of Texas at Austin
Topics referred to by the same term
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Travesty. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Look up travesty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A travesty is an
absurd or grotesque misrepresentation, a
parody, or grossly inferior imitation. In literary or theatrical contexts it may refer to:
Burlesque, 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) (also spelled travesty), the portrayal of a character in a play, opera, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex
Victorian burlesque, 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
See also
Travesti (gender identity), a term used in South American cultures for a person who was born male but has a feminine gender identity
Texas Travesty, a humor magazine published by students at the University of Texas at Austin
Topics referred to by the same term
This
disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Travesty. If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.