Before the production opened, the Harlem Communists tried to agitate the community against the project, wrongly believing that Welles had cast black actors in order to create a comic or burlesque version of Shakespeare.

A few years later, another poet, Wolfram von Eschenbach, wrote a rather burlesque version, Parzival, around the year 1200.

Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.

Broom-Hilda is capable of time travel, reappearing in various centuries throughout history to chat with (burlesque versions of) diverse historical figures.

The farmer's wife has an adventure somewhat resembling the hero's in the burlesque version of DON GIOVANNI.

Kazakhstan in Borat (2006) (Although Kazakhstan actually exists, the burlesque version created by comic Sacha Baron Cohen is wholly imaginary.)

In their burlesque version, Tosca murders Scarpia in the "Cafe Romano allo Strando", stabbing him with a huge rolled-up restaurant bill and then places one of the dish covers over his face.

Yet everything on this unspectacular intersection has become a burlesque version of itself.

A Professor Pinenut, retired from an American university, is the hero of Mr. Coover's Rabelaisian burlesque version of Collodi's puppet fable.

The comic dialogue in which these rules are summoned is often standard issue, bringing to mind a burlesque version of those era-spanning novels with a feminist conscience, like Lisa Alther's "Kinflicks."