SATIRE/IRONY UNIT

1. Historical Background

The Restoration period was marked by an advance in colonization and overseas trade, by the Dutch Wars, by the great plague (1665) and the great fire of London (1666), by the birth of the Whig and Tory parties, and by the Popish Plot and other manifestations of anti-Catholicism.

Assignment: Find examples of political, religious and social satire and put them on a new page you make called Satire.

 

5. "The Unknown Citizen"

Assignment:

Replicate and analyze Auden's poem.

4. The Music

Assignment: Analyze and explain the satire in these songs.