The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976, this book provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. It studies Rome's satirists individually, in their proper order, and relates their achievements to the separate social and political environs of each…
"Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comp…
Introduction: satire and masculinity -- John Donne's satires and the precariousness of masculine self-control -- Violence and the male in John Marston's Certaine satyres and The scourge of villanie -- The failure of husbandry in Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum -- Age and manhood in …
"Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical…
