The purpose of this paper is to analyze and define the elements of satire and parody in the dramatic opus of Ivo Brešan, more precisely in dramas that were created in the period from the 1960s to 2000. Analyzing the dramatic texts Predstava Hamleta u selu Mrduša Donja, Svečana večera u pogrebnom poduzeću, Utvare i Nihilist iz Vele Mlake is difficult to draw the line between satire and parody, as the concepts are intertwined, appearing in different proportions and relationships within the first and second phases of Brešan's dramatic work. The paper is largely devoted to the analysis of elements of political and social satire, and parody, which acts as an inseparable element of satire that is most often expressed by using intertextual procedures, playing and distorting the meaning of words on the thematic-expressive level of the text. By implementing these elements, from very subtle to comic procedures, the author presents society and distorted social values within all the changes that have befallen Croatia in the last fifty years. Finally, it is important to emphasize that Brešan's comedies were not a critical condemnation of the times but a call to change and open a new view of reality. Consequently, by turning to philosophical questions in the dramas of the 1990s, an attempt was made to define the void that arose and reveal the meaning of human existence, because for Brešan the purpose of the play was not to answer but to ask the right questions.