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Frontcover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 7 List of Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 11 List of Abbreviations 12 Introduction: Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain 1500–1800 14 1 Dissolving into Laughter: Anti-Monastic Satire in the Reign of Henry VIII 40 2 Mocking or Mirthful? Laughter in Early Modern Dialogue 61 3 Farting in the House of Commons: Popular Humour and Political Discourse in Early Modern England 80 4 Continuing Civil War by Other Means: Loyalist Mockery of the Interregnum Church 97 5 Laughter as a Polemical Act in Late Seventeenth-Century England 120 6 Spectacular Opposition: Suppression, Deflection and the Performance of Contempt in John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera and Polly 146 7 ‘Laughing a Folly out of Countenance’: Laughter and the Limits of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Satire 165 8 Nervous Laughter and the Invasion of Britain 1797–1805 186 9 ‘Was a laugh treason?’ Corruption, Satire, Parody and the Press in Early Modern Britain 211 Bibliography 232 Index 258

Author

Mark Knights,Adam Morton

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