Satire

Catalog description

A survey of the forms and motives of satire from its origins in ancient Greek satyr plays to contemporary television and film comedies. Context, audience, race, and gender will be examined in the satires of Aristophanes, Horace, Voltaire, Ionesco, Pope, Swift, Mel Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Muriel Spark, Jon Stewart, and Kathy Griffin, among others.