Later Stuart Britain is well known as an age of political satire. Scholars have generally approached this as an English-language phenomenon, but there was also a significant strand of satiric verse written in Latin, Britain’s second literary language. This article examines the nature and significance of political satire in Latin in this period. Latin satire appeared in many forms and genres, including epigrammatic, lapidary, hexameter and rhyming verse. Like English-language satire, most Latin satire circulated in manuscript rather than print. Although it had elite authors and readers, some Latin satires reached a substantial audience, assisted by the prevalence of short poems and their circulation alongside English translations. As Latin w...
Nearly all literary theories for a millennium have defined satire according to its linguistic clarit...
Of some eighty Roman history plays written or performed in English between 1550 and 1635, forty-thre...
This essay is a survey of Renaissance satire from the early sixteenth into the seventeenth centuries...
The thesis deals with the satire produced by the popular print culture in London during the Civil Wa...
This paper traces the use of satire as a literary form in England from the Renaissance to the Enligh...
This article demonstrates that the genre of seventeenth-century English “character-books” was highly...
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century bce. R...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final ...
This project shows how two early modern phenomena helped each other grow. The figure of the superior...
Scholars have long been interested in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus for the evidence it pr...
Latin-vernacular macaronic verse is a distinctive feature of early modern literary culture across Eu...
This dissertation argues for a critical re-examination of the satiric literature circulating in prin...
Satire, the classical form of dissent, is Roman in origin. All other types of Latin poetry are known...
This article examines the use of the Roman satiric dialogue in eighteenth-century political verse. I...
This introductory chapter looks at the problem of how we should describe eighteenth-century satire, ...
Nearly all literary theories for a millennium have defined satire according to its linguistic clarit...
Of some eighty Roman history plays written or performed in English between 1550 and 1635, forty-thre...
This essay is a survey of Renaissance satire from the early sixteenth into the seventeenth centuries...
The thesis deals with the satire produced by the popular print culture in London during the Civil Wa...
This paper traces the use of satire as a literary form in England from the Renaissance to the Enligh...
This article demonstrates that the genre of seventeenth-century English “character-books” was highly...
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century bce. R...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final ...
This project shows how two early modern phenomena helped each other grow. The figure of the superior...
Scholars have long been interested in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus for the evidence it pr...
Latin-vernacular macaronic verse is a distinctive feature of early modern literary culture across Eu...
This dissertation argues for a critical re-examination of the satiric literature circulating in prin...
Satire, the classical form of dissent, is Roman in origin. All other types of Latin poetry are known...
This article examines the use of the Roman satiric dialogue in eighteenth-century political verse. I...
This introductory chapter looks at the problem of how we should describe eighteenth-century satire, ...
Nearly all literary theories for a millennium have defined satire according to its linguistic clarit...
Of some eighty Roman history plays written or performed in English between 1550 and 1635, forty-thre...
This essay is a survey of Renaissance satire from the early sixteenth into the seventeenth centuries...