Augustan literature
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Augustan literature is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deat
Queen Anne
William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, as in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.
A woodcut of Daniel Defoe
A portrait of Tobias Smollett
Chrononhotonthologos
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Chrononhotonthologos is a satirical play by the English poet and songwriter Henry Carey from 1734. Although the play has been seen as nonsense verse, it was also seen and celebrated at the time as a s
An 1818 playbill from Nova Scotia for a performance of Chrononhotonthologos and other "old" plays
