Author: John Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Humour, Wit & Satire of the Seventeenth Century. Collected and Illustrated by John Ashton. New Introd. by Leslie Shepart. London, Chatto & Windus, 1883
Author: John Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Wit at Several Weapons
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726262019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Wit at Several Weapons is a seventeenth-century comedy. Sir Perfidious Oldcraft is a self-described practitioner and admirer of "wit." (In the English Renaissance, the word covered everything from prodigious intellect to cleverness, street smarts to practical jokes.) He is so dedicated to the concept that when his son Wittypate Oldcraft turns twenty-one, Sir Perfidious kicks him out of the family manse with no income, to live by his wits. The son decides to fulfill his father's dictates with a vengeance, by making his father his wits' target.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726262019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Wit at Several Weapons is a seventeenth-century comedy. Sir Perfidious Oldcraft is a self-described practitioner and admirer of "wit." (In the English Renaissance, the word covered everything from prodigious intellect to cleverness, street smarts to practical jokes.) He is so dedicated to the concept that when his son Wittypate Oldcraft turns twenty-one, Sir Perfidious kicks him out of the family manse with no income, to live by his wits. The son decides to fulfill his father's dictates with a vengeance, by making his father his wits' target.