In early modern Britain, the primary medium of free comment was the clandestine satire, circulated either orally or in manuscript. Part of the national politica

In late seventeenth-century England verse took on two distinct characteristics: political verse - which circulated extensively in manuscript in the period 1660-

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

This book revises assumptions about satire as a public, masculine discourse derived from classical precedents, in order to develop theoretical and critical para

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom’s mid-seventeenth-centu