Hudibras
Sign in to savealt=An engraving depicting Hudibras overcoming a fiddle player and placing him in the stocks. Above the stocks, the fiddle and its case are displayed.|thumb|One of twelve engravings illustrating the adventures of Hudibras by William Hogarth. Hudibras () is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.
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- Author
- Samuel Butler
- First published
- 1662
- Editions
- 283
- Subjects
- English Satire, English poetry, Knights and knighthood, Poetry, Modern Literature, Poetry as Topic, Library, Personal copy
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Overview
- The characters
- Hudibras
- Ralpho
- The rich widow
- The townspeople
- Sidrophel and Whackum
- Plot
- The style
- Hudibras's name
- The first appearances of ''Hudibras'' in print
- The long afterlife of ''Hudibras''
- Early translation into French
- Editions and versions in England after Butler's death
- Hudibrastic style after ''Hudibras''
- References
- External links
alt=An engraving depicting Hudibras overcoming a fiddle player and placing him in the stocks. Above the stocks, the fiddle and its case are displayed.|thumb|One of twelve engravings illustrating the adventures of Hudibras by William Hogarth. Hudibras () is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.
The story shows Hudibras, a Cromwellian knight and colonel in the New Model Army, being regularly defeated and humiliated, as in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Butler's main inspiration. Colonel Hudibras' humiliations arrive sometimes by the skills and courage of women, and the epic ends with a witty and detailed declaration by the latest female to get the better of him that women are intellectually superior to men.