Research news - The Glorious Revolution inspired birth of modern satire long before coffee shop culture, according to new research
Romeyn de Hooghe, Sic Itur ad Astra Scilicet, 1688, etching and letterpress, British Museum, London. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. The Glorious Revolution inspired birth of modern satire long before coffee shop culture, according to new research The arrival of William of Orange in England helped to inspire the birth of modern satire – long before coffee shop culture made the cutting art form fashionable, a new study argues. The golden age of satire in Britain was in the 1740s, but it arrived in the country – via the Netherlands - half a century earlier, when ...
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