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A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. The Tale is a prose parody divided...39 KB (5,973 words) - 03:43, 22 May 2024- A Tale of a Tub is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Ben Jonson. The last of his plays to be staged during his lifetime, A Tale of a Tub...5 KB (687 words) - 08:49, 12 August 2023
- Battle of the Books" is a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal...8 KB (1,165 words) - 23:51, 4 April 2024
- A Tale of a Tub. Critics typically distinguish between the picaresque, made up of a connected sequence of episodes, and the novel, which has unity of...6 KB (702 words) - 22:56, 16 June 2024
Jonathan Swift (redirect from A Person of Honour)became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An...68 KB (7,243 words) - 22:11, 4 July 2024
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick...26 KB (3,421 words) - 20:13, 1 July 2024
Great Scotland Yard (category Streets in the City of Westminster)prestige; for example in the 1690s in his satirical A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift claimed the regard of "my worthy brethren and friends at Will's Coffee-house...14 KB (1,523 words) - 08:36, 25 June 2024
Jonathan Swift used tale I, 3 for his first major published work, A Tale of a Tub (1704). The tale of patient Griselda (X, 10) was the source of Chaucer's "The...35 KB (3,301 words) - 16:30, 30 June 2024- Tale of a Tub ix.166, satirizing the atomistic theory of Epicurus: Epicurus modestly hoped that one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse of all...6 KB (787 words) - 17:02, 27 February 2024
Münster rebellion (redirect from Kingdom of Münster)Emperor and the Duke of Saxony A Tale of a Tub (1704) by Jonathan Swift. His first major work, brother "Jack" is based on "Jack of Leyden". Le prophète...17 KB (1,737 words) - 03:06, 27 June 2024
Augustan literature (redirect from Literature of the Georgian era)writing that lived for only a day (like Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, in The Dedication to Prince Posterity of A Tale of a Tub and The Dunciad, among...70 KB (10,051 words) - 09:17, 28 March 2024- – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal William Congreve – The Way of the World George Berkeley – Principles of Human...20 KB (2,039 words) - 15:38, 4 May 2024
Gulliver's Travels (redirect from Vol. IV of the Author's Works Including Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships)This title contains the major works of Swift in full, including Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub, Directions to Servants and many other...52 KB (6,899 words) - 14:50, 10 July 2024
Houyhnhnm (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)mistrustful of attempts at reason that resulted in either hubris (for example, the Projectors satirised in A Tale of a Tub or in Book III of Gulliver's...9 KB (1,225 words) - 23:00, 27 February 2024- output. In his A Tale of a Tub, Swift proposed that there "are the men who pretend to understand a book by scouting through the index, as if a traveller should...26 KB (3,163 words) - 16:25, 7 January 2024
- a defense of Classical learning, which he published as a prolegomenon to his A Tale of a Tub. It gained widespread currency in the Victorian era, when...9 KB (1,311 words) - 05:47, 16 February 2024
- 1580 in John Lyly's Euphues and His England. In Ben Jonson's play, A Tale of a Tub (1633) Erasmus's text is explicitly quoted and expanded: "Multa cadunt...12 KB (1,489 words) - 15:36, 8 February 2024
Audrey Safranek, in the film, Downsizing Audrey Turfe, in Ben Jonson's A Tale of a Tub Audrey, in the eponymous 1902 novel by Mary Johnston, and its 1916...8 KB (1,028 words) - 14:28, 14 June 2024- Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels (1726) Voltaire, Candide (1759) William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven...22 KB (2,807 words) - 03:39, 1 July 2024
Augustan prose (section The precondition of literacy)readers of his A Tale of a Tub would be incapable of understanding it unless, like him, they were poor, hungry, had just had wine, and were located in a specific...53 KB (7,979 words) - 20:19, 22 May 2024
- Works entitled A Tale of a Tub 5392A Tale of a Tub A Tale of a Tub may refer to: A Tale of a Tub, a satire by Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub, a play by Ben
- BookBrowse [M]y eye fell upon a little book, in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written: "A TALE OF A TUB; PRICE 3d." The title was so
- sexual content. Chaucer refers to this tale as a churl’s tale, meaning a common tale, in contrast to the noble tale the Knight opens with. This contrast