A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

PAGE ORIGIN OF CARICATURE AND GROTESQUE--SPIRIT OF CARICATURE IN EGYPT--MONSTERS: PYTHON AND GORGON--GREECE--THE DIONYSIAC CEREMONIES, AND ORIGIN OF THE DRAMA--THE OLD COMEDY--L...

ORIGIN OF THE STAGE IN ROME--USES OF THE MASK AMONG THE ROMANS--SCENES FROM ROMAN COMEDY--THE SANNIO AND MIMUS--THE ROMAN DRAMA--THE ROMAN SATIRISTS--CARICATURE--ANIMALS INTRODU...

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 DIABOLICAL IN CARICATURE--MEDIÆVAL LOVE OF THE LUDICROUS--CAUSES WHICH MADE IT INFLUENCE THE NOTIONS OF DEMONS--STORIES OF THE PIOUS PAINTER AND THE ERRING MONK--DARKNESS AN...

EMPLOYMENT OF ANIMALS IN MEDIÆVAL SATIRE--POPULARITY OF FABLES; ODO DE CIRINGTON--REYNARD THE FOX--BURNELLUS AND FAUVEL--THE CHARIVARI--LE MONDE BESTORNÉ--ENCAUSTIC TILES--SHOEI...

CARICATURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE--STATE OF DOMESTIC LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES--EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC CARICATURE FROM THE CARVINGS OF THE MISERERES--KITCHEN SCENES--DOMESTIC BRAWLS--THE...

GROTESQUE FACES AND FIGURES--PREVALENCE OF THE TASTE FOR UGLY AND GROTESQUE FACES--SOME OF THE POPULAR FORMS DERIVED FROM ANTIQUITY: THE TONGUE LOLLING OUT, AND THE DISTORTED MO...

SATIRICAL LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES--JOHN DE HAUTEVILLE AND ALAN DE LILLE--GOLIAS AND THE GOLIARDS--THE GOLIARDIC POETRY--TASTE FOR PARODY--PARODIES ON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS--P...

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 SC...

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...

THE DANCE OF DEATH--THE PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF LA CHAISE DIEU--THE REIGN OF FOLLY--SEBASTIAN BRANDT; THE SHIP OF FOOLS--DISTURBERS OF CHURCH SERVICE--TROUBLESOME BEGGARS--GE...

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 AN...

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 OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTU...

THE SATIRICAL LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY--PASQUIL--MACARONIC POETRY--THE EPISTOLÆ OBSCURORUM VIRORUM--RABELAIS--COURT OF THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE, AND ITS LITERARY CIRCLE;...

POLITICAL CARICATURE IN ITS INFANCY--THE REVERS DU JEU DES SUYSSES--CARICATURE IN FRANCE--THE THREE ORDERS--PERIOD OF THE LIGUE; CARICATURES AGAINST HENRI III.--CARICATURES AGAI...

EARLY POLITICAL CARICATURE IN ENGLAND--THE SATIRICAL WRITINGS AND PICTURES OF THE COMMONWEALTH PERIOD--SATIRES AGAINST THE BISHOPS; BISHOP WILLIAMS--CARICATURES ON THE CAVALIERS...

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; T...

CARICATURE IN HOLLAND--ROMAIN DE HOOGHE--THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION--CARICATURES ON LOUIS XIV. AND JAMES II.--DR. SACHEVERELL--CARICATURE BROUGHT FROM HOLLAND TO ENGLAND--ORIGIN OF...

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 ADMINISTRATIO...

HOGARTH--HIS EARLY HISTORY--HIS SETS OF PICTURES--THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS--THE RAKE'S PROGRESS--THE MARRIAGE A LA MODE--HIS OTHER PRINTS--THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY, AND THE PERSECUTI...

THE LESSER CARICATURISTS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.--PAUL SANDBY--COLLET: THE DISASTER, AND FATHER PAUL IN HIS CUPS--JAMES SAYER: HIS CARICATURES IN SUPPORT OF PITT, AND HIS RE...

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--ALLEGE...

ORIGIN OF CARICATURE AND GROTESQUE.--SPIRIT OF CARICATURE IN EGYPT.--MONSTERS: PYTHON AND GORGON.--GREECE.--THE DIONYSIAC CEREMONIES, AND ORIGIN OF THE DRAMA.--THE OLD COMEDY.--...

ORIGIN OF THE STAGE IN ROME.--USES OF THE MASK AMONG THE ROMANS.--SCENES FROM ROMAN COMEDY.--THE SANNIO AND MIMUS.--THE ROMAN DRAMA.--THE ROMAN SATIRISTS.--CARICATURE.--ANIMALS...

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...

THE DIABOLICAL IN CARICATURE.--MEDIÆVAL LOVE OF THE LUDICROUS.--CAUSES WHICH MADE IT INFLUENCE THE NOTIONS OF DEMONS.--STORIES OF THE PIOUS PAINTER AND THE ERRING MONK.--DARKNES...

EMPLOYMENT OF ANIMALS IN MEDIÆVAL SATIRE.--POPULARITY OF FABLES; ODO DE CIRINGTON.--REYNARD THE FOX.--BURNELLUS AND FAUVEL.--THE CHARIVARI.--LE MONDE BESTORNÉ.--ENCAUSTIC TILES....

THE MONKEY IN BURLESQUE AND CARICATURE.--TOURNAMENTS AND SINGLE COMBATS.--MONSTROUS COMBINATIONS OF ANIMAL FORMS.--CARICATURES ON COSTUME.--THE HAT.--THE HELMET.--LADIES' HEAD-D...

I have already remarked that, upon the fall of the Roman empire, the popular institutions of the Romans were more generally preserved to the middle ages than those of a higher a...

who shall commit the cleverest act of thievery, and the result is, at least, an extremely amusing story. It may be mentioned as an example of the numerous stories which the joug...

CARICATURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE.--STATE OF DOMESTIC LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.--EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC CARICATURE FROM THE CARVINGS OF THE MISERERES.--KITCHEN SCENES.--DOMESTIC BRAWLS....

GROTESQUE FACES AND FIGURES.--PREVALENCE OF THE TASTE FOR UGLY AND GROTESQUE FACES.--SOME OF THE POPULAR FORMS DERIVED FROM ANTIQUITY; THE TONGUE LOLLING OUT, AND THE DISTORTED...

SATIRICAL LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.--JOHN DE HAUTEVILLE AND ALAN DE LILLE.--GOLIAS AND THE GOLIARDS.--THE GOLIARDIC POETRY.--TASTE FOR PARODY.--PARODIES ON RELIGIOUS SUBJEC...

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...

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...

THE DANCE OF DEATH.--THE PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF LA CHAISE DIEU.--THE REIGN OF FOLLY.--SEBASTIAN BRANDT; THE "SHIP OF FOOLS."--DISTURBERS OF CHURCH SERVICE.--TROUBLESOME BEGG...

The people in the middle ages, as well as its superiors, had its comic literature and legend. Legend was the literature especially of the peasant, and in it the spirit of burles...

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...

There is still another branch of literature which, however it may have been modified, has descended to us from the middle ages. It has been remarked more than once in the course...

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 OF THE SIXTEENTH C...

CALLOT AND HIS SCHOOL.--CALLOT'S ROMANTIC HISTORY.--HIS "CAPRICI," AND OTHER BURLESQUE WORKS.--THE "BALLI" AND THE BEGGARS.--IMITATORS OF CALLOT; DELLA BELLA.--EXAMPLES OF DELLA...

THE SATIRICAL LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.--PASQUIL.-- MACARONIC POETRY.--THE EPISTOLÆ OBSURORUM VIRORUM.--RABELAIS.-- COURT OF THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE, AND ITS LITERARY CI...

POLITICAL CARICATURE IN ITS INFANCY.--THE REVERS DU JEU DES SUYSSES.--CARICATURE IN FRANCE.--THE THREE ORDERS.--PERIOD OF THE LEAGUE; CARICATURES AGAINST HENRI III.--CARICATURES...

EARLY POLITICAL CARICATURE IN ENGLAND.--THE SATIRICAL WRITINGS AND PICTURES OF THE COMMONWEALTH PERIOD.--SATIRES AGAINST THE BISHOPS; BISHOP WILLIAMS.--CARICATURES ON THE CAVALI...

ENGLISH COMEDY.--BEN JONSON.--THE OTHER WRITERS OF HIS SCHOOL.--INTERRUPTION OF DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES.--COMEDY AFTER THE RESTORATION.--THE HOWARDS BROTHERS; THE DUKE OF BUCKINGH...

CARICATURE IN HOLLAND.--ROMAIN DE HOOGHE.--THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.--CARICATURES ON LOUIS XIV. AND JAMES II.--DR. SACHEVERELL.--CARICATURE BROUGHT FROM HOLLAND TO ENGLAND.--ORIGI...

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 ADMINISTR...

HOGARTH.--HIS EARLY HISTORY.--HIS SETS OF PICTURES.--THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.--THE RAKE'S PROGRESS.--THE MARRIAGE A LA MODE.--HIS OTHER PRINTS.--THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY, AND THE PE...

THE LESSER CARICATURISTS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.--PAUL SANDBY.--COLLET; THE DISASTER, AND FATHER PAUL IN HIS CUPS.--JAMES SAYER; HIS CARICATURES IN SUPPORT OF PITT, AND HIS...

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."-...

Gillray was, beyond all others, the great political caricaturist of his age. His works form a complete history of the greater and more important portion of the reign of George I...