Abstract
Adam Smyth examines the reappearance of apparently topical early-seventeenth-century libels in print in the 1640s and 1650s, considering verses that satirize three oft-libeled figures (Robert Cecil, Penelope Devereux, and George Villiers). By examining these verses both in terms of their initial moment of manuscript circulation and their republication in print some fifty years later, this article explores how and why readers returned to topical satire long after its moment had passed. 82 adam smyth 82. McRae, Literature, Satire, and the Early Stuart State, 24. 83. Smith, Literature and Revolution, 24. 84. Ibid., 12. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.107 on Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:03:47 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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