THE NEW FOUNDLING HOSPITAL FOR WIT: FROM HANBURY WILLIAMS TO JOHN WILKES.(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Nichol, Donald W. | Copyright information

Like its forerunner, The Foundling Hospital for Wit (1743-49),(1) The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (1768-74)(2) is one of the great, popular, yet overlooked collections of British humor. Both series provided English readers with jokes, anecdotes and some of the most downright vindictive satire of the eighteenth century. Early readers must have laughed at ministerial lampoons and early manifestations of Monty Python's "Dirty Vicar" sketch or scratched their heads wondering whether...

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