Introduction 'We Cannot Think of What Hath Not Been Thought': or, How Critics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Literary Parody Parody as Plague: Ben Jonson and the Early Anxieties of Parodic Destabilization Minding True Things by Mock'ries: The Henry V Chorus and the Question of Shakespearean Parody John Dryden and Homeopathic Parody in the Early Augustan Battleground Parodying Pope's Eloisa to Abelard : Richard Owen Cambridge's An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room Parody, Autobiography and the Novel: Charlotte Charke's The History of Mr. Henry Dumont, Esq., and Miss Charlotte Evelyn Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index