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Burlesque, that is comic imitation, comprises parody and caricature. The latter is a valuable addition to humorous narrative, as we see in the sketches of Gillray, Cruikshank and others. By itself it is not sufficiently suggestive and affords no story or conversation. Hence in the old caricatures the speeches of the characters were written in balloons over their heads, and in the modern an explanation is added underneath. For want of such assistance we lose the greater part of the humour in Hogarth's paintings. We may date the revival of Parody from the fifteenth century, although Dr. Johnson speaks as though it originated with Philips. Notwithstanding. | 1 History of English Humour Vol. 2 of 2 by CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVI. 2 CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XI. Chapter Ixxxviii Chapter Ixxxviii CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XIX. History of English Humour Vol. 2 of 2 by 3 CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIII. History of English Humour Vol. 2 of 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L Estrange This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title History of English Humour Vol. 2 of 2 Author Alfred Guy Kingan L Estrange Release Date July 25 2006 eBook 18906 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR VOL. 2 OF 2 E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier Janet Blenkinship and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Transcriber s note The letter e with a .