Parody
Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness, a satirical novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 (later made in 1989 into a TV comedy-drama film Blore M.P. starring Timothy West) features a cabinet minister who gets involved in a Profumo-like affair with a prostitute. The prostitute is a naive, even stupid, young girl called Bernadette Woolley (Maggie O'Neill) (see IMDB entry).
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Famous quotes containing the word parody:
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Pushkin’s composition is first of all and above all a phenomenon of style, and it is from this flowered rim that I have surveyed its seep of Arcadian country, the serpentine gleam of its imported brooks, the miniature blizzards imprisoned in round crystal, and the many-hued levels of literary parody blending in the melting distance.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)