Similar in form to burlesque, pantomime however, took its subjects mainly from children's stories, although some deal with historical or exotic subjects.
At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner's burlesque of the secular.
A higher level of comic refunctioning takes place when the original meaning of a quotation is completely changed by placing it in a burlesque context.
Her study examines hard country through the burlesque, 'a comic mode that can be used to undermine any cultural ideal'.
Worse, the burlesque doesn't just remove; it mocks the dispensation others have found in the soliloquy.
They make a burlesque of revolutionary myths of transparency.
Furthermore, literary burlesque had a popularity that strikes us as idiosyncratic, and drab realism made an inviting target.
The comedy, in fact, was just the central part of these performances, conceived as full spectacles that incorporated many aspects of popular culture: dances, burlesques, carnivalesque elements.
