Hall's Virgidemiarum: Six Books (1597 1602; "A Harvest of Blows") was the first English satire successfully modeled on Latin satire, and its couplets anticipated the satiric heroic couplets of John Dryden in the late 17th century.
Satiric political images clash with ads for the underground press.
Fortune's most frequent screen persona was as a shambolic, dense and stuffy bureaucrat – such as his Tory MP George Parr – baffled and outraged by the world, but the character concealed Fortune's sharp satiric intelligence as a writer and performer.
(Johnson) New-York Historical Society: 'Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York' (through Sept. 1) A Social Realist with satiric leanings, Marsh (1898-1954) painthe the seamy side of life in New York during the Great Depression.
His large choral "Requiem" is at once dramatic and satiric, presenting its own quirkily sincere emotion while mocking overblown 19th-century convention.One of the most arresting pieces to be heard is Mr Ligeti's recent "Violin Concerto", a feast of precisely planned effects, motifs and melodies which encapsulates the range of the composer's appeal.
By contrast, Mr Moore's satiric skills seem to have decreased in direct proportion to his fame: the wit of "Roger & Me", which skewered General Motors, has given way to "Woo Hoo!
Juvenal's 16 satiric poems deal mainly with life in Rome under the much-dreaded emperor Domitian and his more humane successors Nerva (96 98), Trajan (98 117), and Hadrian (117 138).
His magazine articles and reviews gathered in A Book of Prefaces (1917) and the six volumes of Prejudices (1919 27) ushered in the iconoclasm of the 1920s, preparing the ground for satiric writers such as Sinclair Lewis.
In leisurely, good-humoured, minutely detailed novels, Richard Russo dealt with blue-collar losers living in decaying Northeastern towns in The Risk Pool (1988), Nobody's Fool (1993), and Empire Falls (2001), but he also published a satiric novel about academia, Straight Man (1997).
The mere fact that fables unmask the "beast in me," as James Thurber, the 20th-century American humorist and fabulist, put it, suggests their satiric force.
In the satiric comedy Le Dieu du carnage (2006; God of Carnage), Reza focused on two couples who meet to discuss a fight between their young sons.
