1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

A short satirical work by Mark Twain, first issued anonymously in 1880, that imagines a coarse, bawdy fireside conversation among Queen Elizabeth, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and others, written in deliberately vulgar imitation of Elizabethan speech.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic humor and satire›American and Canadian humor before 1900›Satire, parody, and burlesque

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic humor and satire›American and Canadian humor before 1900›Satire, parody, and burlesque