The long-winded medieval romance is satirized in Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century "Tale of Sir Thopas"; the Charlemagne story and the whole theme of chivalry is mocked in the epic-style Morgante by Luigi Pulci.
In addition to a number of popular romances of the type satirized long before by Chaucer in "Sir Thopas," the Percy manuscript also contains a number of impressive ballads very much like those collected from oral sources in the 18th and 19th centuries.
He attacked conventional matrimony, satirized the beliefs of the Lutheran Church (although he was ordained in 1837), and as a journalist and in many of his creative writings fought for moral and social reform.
Here Field satirized the cultural pretensions of the newly rich Chicago meat barons.
February 13 , 1768or February 13 , 1769Moscow, Russia November 21, 1844 St .Petersburg, Russia Ivan Andreyevich Krylov, (born Feb. 2 [Feb. 13, New Style], 1768/69, Moscow, Russia died Nov. 9 [Nov. 21], 1844, St . Petersburg Russian writer of innocent-sounding fables that satirized contemporary social types in the guise of beasts.
In all Roach produced some 2,000 comedy shorts and a large number of full-length features during the 1920s, including the Will Rogers series (beginning in 1923) that often satirized the moviemaking industry; the Our Gang comedies; the two-reel ethnic comedies of Max Davidson; the Dippity-Doo-Dads, featuring an all-animal cast; and adventures featuring Rex the Wonder Horse.
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El sombrero de tres picos ("The Three-Cornered Hat"), a novel published in 1874, satirized the overbearing and intriguing official.
The early decades of Australian film were dominated by the development of two genres: the bushranging film, as exemplified by The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), which depicted the life of Ned Kelly; and the "backblocks" farce, a genre that satirized farming families of the era.
The development of the death industry (satirized in Evelyn Waugh's Loved One and explored in Jessica Mitford's American Way of Death) is also a by-product of the technological revolution and of modern attitudes to death.
Herb Stansbury's "Smart Chart," a one-frame comic for the financial page, satirized stock market graphs.
Marston certainly thought himself attacked in Jonson's Cynthia's Revels (c. 1600), and he satirized Jonson as Lampatho Doria in What You Will (1601).
