The term “digital pedagogy” has now achieved the same status as “interdisciplinarity” or “entrepreneurial scholarship.” We express enthusiasm about it publicly, while privately ...

The theater further expands Washington’s classical borders with “The Gaming Table,” a sendup of 18th-century social probity by playwright Susanna Centlivre.

Darly digs: Biting satire from the 18th century. Not much is known about London husband-and-wife satirists the Darlys, but their work remains sharp. Darly’s Comic Prints: ...

Lust, adultery, greed, betrayal — sins as old as time. Yet even today when someone succumbs to their temptations, we are shocked, and fascinated, and we can’t seem to turn ...

Featuring a selection of prints from Yale University’s Lewis Walpole Library, the Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women exhibit offers a view into the manners of an era over 200 years ago, revealing ...

Willaim Congreve's "The Way of the World" is a perfect example of 18th Century English Restoration satire, which is marked by rich language, an emphasis on a clearly delineated class structure ...

Tony Parsons opts for The Virgin Soldiers in the search for Open Book's Funniest Book and Mariella Frostrup talks to Jenny Uglow in the next in the series of Open Book's mini-history of comic writing.

If you thought satire was dead in the age of Brexit and Trump, then a quick look at social media should pretty quickly disabuse you of that illusion. Search “Festival of Brexit Britain” if you want a ...

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own," said Jonathan Swift, the gifted 18th-century lasher of human hypocrisy.