... literature and scatology that create the surprise of wit, but the peculiarly erudite and pedantic minutiae from which the allusions get the effect allied with the broad strokes of vulgarity; and the more indirect obscenities that are introduced with subtlety and sophisticated suggestiveness ... fate of Shadwell's unsold books which lay in an undignified state. To give his poem a semi-religious significance, he traces Shadwell's dramatic ancestry in a biblical manner. Heywood and Shirley were but Types of thee, Thou last great Prophet of Tautology: Even I a dunce, more renown than they, ...

• Word Count: 2125
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School