The whole poem is a witty and highly readable satire on the Exclusion Crisis and The Popish Plot from the Royalist perspective.Shakespeare's "Henry the fourth" part 2 caricatures country justices in the personae of "Shallow" and "Silence"-of Gloucestershire no less.
And Shakespeare's "Henry the fourth" part 2 caricatures country justices in the personae of "Shallow" and "Silence"-of Gloucestershire no less. The whole poem is a witty and highly readable satire on the Exclusion Crisis and The Popish Plot from the Royalist perspective.
The whole poem is a witty and highly readable satire on the Exclusion Crisis and The Popish Plot from the Royalist perspective. And Shakespeare's "Henry the fourth" part 2 caricatures country justices in the personae of "Shallow" and "Silence"-of Gloucestershire no less.
The whole poem is a witty and highly readable satire on the Exclusion Crisis and The Popish Plot from the Royalist perspective. And Shakespeare's "Henry the fourth" part 2 caricatures country justices in the personae of "Shallow" and "Silence"-of Gloucestershire no less.