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Trivia about satire

  • Jonathan Swift defined it as "A glass wherein beholders discover everybody's face but their own"
  • This type of work holding up human follies to humorous criticism was once divided into "gentle" or "indignant"
  • "Gulliver's Travels" is this type of work that exposes human foolishness & corruption
  • Starting with Gaius Lucilius, it's considered the only literary form the Romans invented
  • George S. Kaufman defined this type of comedy as "What closes Saturday night"
  • In the early 100s Juvenal was writing in this genre, mocking & ridiculing Roman corruption

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