Hey Presto!
Swift and the Quacks
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| Autor | Hugh Ormsby-Lennon |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Delaware Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 414 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781644531143 |
| Número de Cutter | O73h |
Traveling "medicine shows," both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination. Dubbing such multifaceted vagabond entertainments his "Stage-Itinerant" or "Mountebank's Stage," Swift mimicked their argot, puffery, and slapstick in A Tale of a Tub (1704). The author reveals how the stage-itinerant not only furnished the Tale with its irresistible model but still parades that missing link, long sought, which conjoins the dual objects of Swift's ire: "gross Corruptions in [both] Religion and Learning."