Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires Explained

Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires is a work of poetic satire written by English playwright Thomas Middleton in 1597 and 1598. The print version (STC 17154) was published in 1599 by Thomas Creede for Thomas Bushell and was burned publicly as part of the Archbishop of Canterbury's attack on verse satire; it was not reprinted again in the seventeenth century.^[1] Although a minor work, the poems included prefigure the interests of Middleton's mature work in sin, hypocrisy, and lust.^[2] The poem was influenced by works by John Marston and Joseph Hall, and has been described as one of Middleton's "masterpieces".^[3]

Further reading

• Irwin, Larry Wayne, A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's 'Micro-cynicon', 'Father Hubburds Tales', and The Blacke Booke' (unpublished Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1969)
• Book: Clegg, Cyndia Susan . Press Censorship in Elizabethan England . 1997-08-07 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-57312-2 . 1 . 10.1017/cbo9780511585241.010.
• Boose, Lynda E., 'The 1599 Bishops' Ban, Elizabethan Pornography, and the Sexualization of the Jacobean Stage', in Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England, eds. Richard Burt and John Michael Archer (1994), 185–200

Notes and References

1. Book: Wall, Wendy . Thomas Middleton, Vol. 2: Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works: A Companion to the Collected Works . 2007-11-22 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-818570-3 . Taylor . Gary . MICROCYNICON: SIX SNARLING SATIRES Edited by Wendy Wall . 10.1093/actrade/9780198185703.book.1 . Lavagnino . John.
2. Web site: The forgotten poet of Newington who never shied from a jibe - Southwark News . 2022-11-01 . en-GB.
3. Book: Campana, Joseph . The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton . 2012-04-05 . Oxford University Press . Taylor . Gary . Middleton as Poet . 470–486 . 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559886.013.0030 . 978-0199559886 . Henley . Trish Thomas.