Scarronides
work by Cotton
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Scarronides is a work by Charles Cotton, published in 1664. It is a travesty, a crude form of burlesque where a dignified subject is treated in a trivial manner. Cotton's work is a coarse burlesque of the first and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid, imitating the French Virgile travesty by Paul Scarron. Travesty transforms the original subject matter into something ridiculous through incongruous language and style, rather than significantly altering the plot.12
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