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-''[[History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art]]'' ([[1865]]) is a work on [[caricature]] and [[grotesque]] in [[grotesque art|art]] and [[grotesque literature|literature]] by [[Thomas Wright (antiquarian) |Thomas Wright]] with engravings by [[Frederick William Fairholt]]. 
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-Preface to the New Edition ...v 
-Introduction: The Meaning of the Grotesque - Frances K. Barash ... vi+In [[Greco-Roman mythology]], '''Aeneas''' was a [[Troy|Trojan]] hero, the son of prince [[Anchises]] and the goddess [[Venus_(mythology)|Venus]]. His father was also the second cousin of King [[Priam]] of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy, (led by Venus, his mother) which led to the founding of the city [[Rome]], is recounted in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''. He is considered an important figure in [[Greece|Greek]] and [[Rome|Roman]] legend and history. Aeneas is a character in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', Quintus Smyrnaeus' ''[[Posthomerica]]'', and [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]''. Also, Aeneas has been known for his skills in combat during the battle of Troy. He also was one of the keys to the founding of Rome.
 +==See also==
 +*[[Cumaean Sibyl]]
 +*[[Lacrimae rerum]]
 +*[[The Golden Bough (mythology)|The Golden Bough]]
-Errata ... lix 
-Preface ... lxiii 
-Contents ... lxix 
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-CHAPTER I ... 1 
-Origin of caricature and grotesque - Spirit of caricature in [[Egypt]] - Monsters: Python and Gorgon - Greece - The [[Dionysiac]] ceremonies, and origins of the drama - The old comedy - Love of parody - Parodies on subjects taken from [[Grecian mythology]]: The visit to the lover; [[Apollo]] at [[Delphi]] - The partiality of parody continued among the Romans: The flight of the [[Aeneas]] 
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-CHAPTER II ... 23 
-Origin of the stage in Rome - Uses of the [[mask]] among the Romans - Scenes from the [[Roman comedy]] - The [[Sannio]] and [[Mimus]] - The Roman drama - The Roman satirists -Caricature - Animals introduced in the characters of men - The [[Pigmies]], and their introduction into caricature; The farm-yard; The painter's studio; The procession - Political caricature in Pompeii; The graffiti 
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-CHAPTER III ... 40 
-The period of transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages - The Roman Mimi continued to exist - The Teutonic after-dinner entertainments - Clerical satires: Archbishop [[Heriger]] and the dreamer; The supper of the Saints - Tansition from ancient to medieval art - Taste for monstrous animals, dragons, etc.; [[Church of San Fedele]], at [[Como]] - Spirit of caricature and love of grotesque among the Anglo-Saxons - Grotesque figures of demons - Natural tendency of the early medieval arists to draw in caricature - Examples from early manuscripts and sculptures 
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-CHAPTER IV ... 61 
-The diabolical in literature - Medieval love of the ludicrous - Causes which made it influence the notions of demons - Stories of the pious painter and the erring monk - Darkness and ugliness caricatured - The demons in the [[miracle play]]s - The demons of [[Notre Dame]] 
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-CHAPTER V ... 75 
-Employment of animals in medieval satire - Popularity of fables; Odo de Cirington - Reynard the fox - Burnellus and Fauvel - The Charivari - Le monde bestorne - Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses - Satirical signs; The mustard maker 
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-CHAPTER VI ... 95 
-The monkey on burlesquee and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves 
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-CHAPTER VII ... 106 
-Preservation of the character of the Mimus after the fall of the empire - The minstrel and the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots 
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-CHAPTER VIII ... 118 
-Caricatures of domestic life - State of domestic life in the middle ages - Examples of domestic ccaricature from the carving sof the misereres - Kitchen scenes - Domestic brawls - The fight for the breeches - The judicial duel between man and wife among the germans - Allusions to witchcraft - Satires on the trades: The baker, the miller, the wine-pedlar and the tavern-keeper, the ale-wife, etc. 
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-CHAPTER IX ... 144 
-Grotesqe faces and figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of the popular forms derived from antiquity: The otngue lolling out, and the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents - Allegorical figures: Gluttony and luxury - Other representations of clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals, and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books - Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam 
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-CHAPTER X ... 159 
-Satitrical literature in the middle ages - John de Hauteville and Alan de Lille - Golias and the Goliards - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The Jews of Norwich - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire - Political songs and poems 
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-CHAPTER XI ... 188 
-Minstrelsy a subject of burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir Matthew Gournay and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes - Mermaids 
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-CHAPTER XII ... 200 
-The court fool - The Normans and their gabs - Early history of court fools - Their costume - Carvings in the Cornish churches -The burlesque societies of the middle ages - The feasts of asses, and of fools - Theor license - The leaden money of the fools - The bishop's blessing 
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-CHAPTER XIII ... 214 
-The dance of death - The paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly - Sebastian Brandt; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service - Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - Radius, and his ship of foolish women - The pleasures of smell - Erasmus; the praise of folly 
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-CHAPTER XIV ... 228 
-Popular literature and its heroes; Brother Rush, Tyll Eulenspiegel, the Wise Men of Gotham - Stories and jest-books - Skelton, Scogin, Tarlton, Peele 
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-CHAPTER XV ... 244 
-The age of the Reformation - Thomas Murner; his general satires - Fruitfulness of folly - Hans Sachs - The trap for fools - Attacks on Luther - The Pope as antichrist - The pope-ass and the monk-calf - Other caricatures against the Pope - The good and bad shepherds 
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-CHAPTER XVI ... 264 
-Origin of medieval farce and modern comedy - Hrothsvitha - Medieval notions of Terrence - The early religious plays - Mysteries and miracle plays - The farces - The drama in the Sixteenth Century 
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-CHAPTER XVII ... 288 
-Diablerie in the Sixteenth Century - Early types of the diabolical forms - St. Anthony - St. Guthlac - Revival of the taste for such subjects in the beginning od the Sixteenth Century - The Flemish schhol of Breughel - The French and Italian schools - Callot, Salvator Rosa 
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-CHAPTER XVIII ... 300 
-Callot and his school - Callot's romantic history - His "Caprichi," and other burlesque works - The "Balli" and the beggars - Imitators of Callot; Della Bella - Examples of Della Bella - [[Romain de Hooghe]] 
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-CHAPTER XIX ... 312 
-The satirical literature of the Sicteenth Century - Pasquil - Macaronic poetry - The Epistolae Obscurorum Vivorum - Rabelais - Court of the Queen of Navarre, and its literary circle; Bonaventure des Perriers - Henri Etienne - The Ligue, and its satire; The "Satire Menippe" 
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-CHAPTER XX ... 347 
-Political caricature in its infancy - The Reveres du Jeu des Suyesses - Caricature in France - The Three Orders - Period of the Ligue; Caricatures against Henri III. - Caricatures against the Ligue - Caricature in France in the Seventeenth Century - Genral galas - The quarrel of ambassadors - Caricature against Louis XIV; Willima of Furstemberg 
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-CHAPTER XXI ... 360 
-Early political caricature in England - The satirical writings and pictures of the Commonwealth period - Satires against the bishops; Bishop Williams - Caricatures on the Cavaliers; Sir John Suckling - The Roaring Boys; Violence of the Royalist soldiers - Contest between the Presbyterians and Independents - Grinding the King's nose - Playing-cards used as the medium for caricature; Haselrigge and Lambert - Shrovetide 
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-CHAPTER XXII ... 375 
-English comedy - Ben Jonson - The other writers of his school - Interruption of dramatic performances - Comedy after the Restoration - The Howards Brothers: The Duke of Buckingham; The Rehersal - Writers of comedy in the latter part of the Seventeenth Century - Indececy of the stage - Colley Cibber - Foote 
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-CHAPTER XXIII ... 406 
-Caricature in Holland - [[Romain de Hooghe]] - The Englosh revolution - Caricatures of Louis XIV. and James II. - Dr. Sacheverell- Caricature brought from Holland to England - Origin of the word "caricature" - Mississippi and the South Sea; The Year of Bubbles 
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-CHAPTER XXIV ... 420 
-English caricature in the age of George II. - English printsellers - Artists employed by them - Sir Robert Walpole's long ministry - The war with France - The Newcastle administration - Opera intrigues - Ascension of George III., and Lord Bute in power 
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-CHAPTER XXV ... 434 
-Hogarth - His early history - His sets of pictures - The Harlot's Progress - The Rake's Progress - The Marriage a ala Mode - His other prints - The analysis of beauty, and the persecution arising out of it - His patronage by Lord Bute - Caricature of the times - Attacks to which he was exposed by it, and which hastened his death 
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-CHAPTER XXVI ... 450 
-The lesser caricaturists of the reign of King George III. - Paul Sandby - Collet: The Disaster, and Father Paul in his Cups - James Sayer: His caricatures in support of Pitt, and his reward - Carlo Kahn's triumph - Bunbury's: His caricatures on horsemanship - Woodward: General complaint - Rowlandson's influence on the style of those whose designs he etched - John Kay of Edinburgh: Looking a Rock in the Face 
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-CHAPTER XXVII ... 464 
-Gillray - His first attempts - His caricatures begin with the Shelburne ministry - Impeachment of Warren Hastings - Caricatures on the King; New Way to Pay the National Debt - Alleged reasons for Gillray's hostility to the King - The King and the Apple-Dumplings - Gillray's later labours - His idiotcy and death 
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-CHAPTER XXVIII ... 480 
-Gillray's caricatures on social life - Thomas Rowlandson - His early life - He becomes a caricaturist - His style and works - His drawings - The Cruikshanks 
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-Index to Names and Titles ... 495 
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In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus. His father was also the second cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy, (led by Venus, his mother) which led to the founding of the city Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and history. Aeneas is a character in Homer's Iliad, Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Also, Aeneas has been known for his skills in combat during the battle of Troy. He also was one of the keys to the founding of Rome.

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