Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… sociability was not one to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Keywords Clubs Humour Impoliteness Politics Satire Sex Taverns Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most widely … taverns and coffeehouses . He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour nevertheless rested on common reference points and lampooning the familiar: it thus offers a valuable contemporary … described London as having ‘an infinity of clubs or societies for the improvement of learning and keeping up with good humour and mirth’. 8 Ward’s satire skewers this fashion, with almost four hundred pages detailing thirty-two clubs and …
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