A CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
to some of the principal
Books and Periodicals
treating of Parody and Burlesque.
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Curiosities of Literature, by Isaac D’Israeli, has chapters on “Parodies,” “Literary Forgeries,” and on “Literary Impostures.”
The Edinburgh Review, November 1812, contains the famous article by Lord Jeffrey on “Rejected Addresses.”
The Three Trials of William Hone for publishing Three Parodies, namely, “The late John Wilkes’s Catechism,” “The Political Litany,” and the “Sinecurist’s Creed,” at Guildhall, London, December 18, 19, and 20, 1817. William Hone himself printed and published in 1818, the Reports of these Trials, which contain a great quantity of general information about Parodies.
Rejected Addresses. After this amusing collection of Parodies had run through seventeen editions Mr. John Murray purchased the copyright, and in 1833 he brought out the eighteenth edition. This has an interesting preface, and valuable notes.