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HEY PRESTO!
Subtitle:
Swift and the Quacks
Book Category:
Literary Criticism > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Author:
Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9781611490121
Price:
USD 85.00
Publication Year:
2011
Alternative Binding:
Ebook
Alternative ISBN 13:
9781611490138
Alternative Price:
USD 84.99
Alternative Publication Year:

2011

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Traveling "medicine shows," both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination. Dubbing such multifaceted vagabond entertainments his "Stage-Itinerant" or "Mountebank's Stage," Swift mimicked their argot, puffery, and slapstick in A Tale of a Tub (1704).

 

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