A Strange
Metamorphosis
of Man, transformed into a Wildernesse.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04
Quolibets.
1628.
Randolph, Thomas. Aristippos or, The Joviall Philosopher. 1630.
Anon. Epigrammes, mirroar of New Reformation. 1634.
The following books should be consulted :
Alden, R. M. The Rise of Formal Satire in England. Philadelphia. 1899.
Collier, J. P. Poetical Decameron. 1820. 3rd, 4th, 5th conversations.
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Seccombe, T. and Allen, J. W. The age of Shakespeare. 1904. Vol. I,
bk. 1, § 9.
Shade, O. Satiren u. Pasquille a. d. Reformationszeit. 1862-3.
Warton, T. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the close of the
Sixteenth century. Ed. by Hazlitt, W. C. 1871. Vol. iv, sections
LXII-LXVI.
CHARACTER WRITERS.
Anticipations of the Genre.
Vision concerning Piers the Plowman (allegorical portraits, ante, vol. II,
chap. I); Bartholomaeus Anglicns and Higden (description of national and
social types, ibid. chap. III); Skelton (Bowge of Court: types of courtiers,
vol. III, chap. IV); Barclay (Ship of Fools: types of folly discussed rather
than portrayed, ibid. ); Cock Lorell (glimpses of individual types of lower
classes, chap. v); Mock Testaments (classification according to some dominant
characteristic, ibid. ); Copland's Hye Waye to the Spittel Hous (vivid descrip-
tions of character and appearance from the view of failure in life, ibid. );
Fraternitye of Vagabonds, Caveat and xxv Orders of Knaves (precise
definitions of rogue-nomenclature, ibid. ); T. Lodge's Wits Miserie (portrayal
of devils as impersonations of specifio vices, see above); T. Greene's Quip;
T. Nashe, especially Pierce Penilesse.
Classical Sources.
Aristotle: Rhetoric, Bk 11. Ed. Cope, E. M. , and Sandys, J. E. , 1877.
Ethics, Bk. iv. Ed. Grant, Sir A. , 1857-8. (Except in the case of Earle and
Bacon, Aristotle's influence can be traced only through Theophrastus. )
Theophrastus. Trans. : Casaubon, I. , 1592; Editio ultima recognita . . . aucta
et locupletata, 1617; Healey, J. , 1616; Jebb, R. O. , revised by Sandys, J. E. ,
1909.
English Writers.
Ormerod, Oliver. The Picture of a Papist, and a Discourse of Popish
Paganisme. 1605. The Picture of a Puritane. 1605.
Hall, Joseph. Characters of Virtues and Vices. 1608.
Anon. The Cobler of Canterburie. 1608. ("The exposition of the eight
degrees of Cuckolds. ')
M. , W. The Man in the Moone telling Strange Fortunes. 1609. Rptd
1849, Halliwell, J. O. , Peroy Soc.
Overbury, Thomas. A Wife: now the Widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye.
Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the Choice of a Wife.
Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited Newes,
written by himself and other learned Gentlemen his friends. 1614 ff.
(There had already appeared in the same year A wife, now a Widowe,
without characters). Note contemporary imitations, The Husband, with
commendatory
verses by Ben Jonson, 1614; A second Select Husband, by
John Davies of Hereford, in 1616; The Description of a Good Wife, by
Brathwaite, and the Happy Husband, by Patrick Hannay, 1619; Picturae
loquentes, by Saltonstall, W. , with a Poem of a Maid, 1631 (3); A Wife
not ready made but bespoken, Robert Aylett, 1653. (See D. of N. B.
art. Overbury. ) 1890, Rimbault, E. F. , Library of Old Authors, rpt of
ninth ed. (i. e. in 1616). See Fox, A. W. , A Book of Bachelors, 1899.
Stephens, John. Satyrical Essayes, characters and others. 1615. New
Essayes and Characters. With a new Satyre in defence of the Common
Law and Lawyers: mixt with reproofe against their enemy Ignoramus.
1631. (Vide Brydges, Restituta, vol. iv, 503 ff. (N. & Q. Ser. iv, vol. III,
550). )
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Mynshul, Geffray. Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners.
1618. Rptd 1638; 1821, Edinburgh.
P[arrot), H. Cures for the Itch. Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs. 1626.
Earle, John. Microcosmographie or a Piece of the World discovered; in
Essays and Characters. 1628 (54 characters). Re-ed. 1811, Bliss, P. ,
with bibliography of Character writers; 1871, Fowler, J. T. (ed. from
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A. S. , with excellent introduction and notes.
M. , R. Micrologia. Characters or Essayes of Persons, Trades and Places.
1629.
Alexandrinus, Clitus (Richard Brathwaite). Whimzies, or, A new Cast of
Characters. 1631. Rptd 1859, Halliwell, J. 0.
Saltonstall, Wye. Picturae Loquentes. 1631. 2nd ed. 1635.
Lupton, Donald. London and Country Carbonadoed and quartered into
severall Characters. 1630. (See British Bibliographer, vol. 1, 464. ) Bptd
Harl. Miso. (ed. Park), vol. IX.
Anon.
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Deciphered in Characters. 1634. (Noticed by Haslewood in Censura
Literaria, vol. VIII, 284. )
Habington, William. Castara. 2nd ed. 1635, has characters of A mistris, A
wife, A friend; 3rd ed. , 1640, has further addition, The Holy Man.
Anon. A Brown Dozen of Drunkards (ali-ass Drinkhards) whipt and shipt
to the Isle of Gulls. 1648.
For adaptation of the character sketch to party politics, its sub-
sequent development as social satire, especially in the hands of John
Cleveland and Samuel Butler, its application to moral instruction, especially
by William Law (Serious Call to the Unconverted, 1729), see later vols. of
present work.
Works to be consulted :
Baldwin, C. S. Modern Language Association of America, June 1904.
Cross, W. L. Development of the English Novel. 1899.
Greenough, C. N. Studies in the Development of Character-writing in
England. Harvard, 1898. Larger work in preparation,
Halliwell, J. O. Books of Characters. Illustrating habits and manners of
Englishmen, from the reign of James 1st to the Restoration, 1857.
Confused Characters. 1860.
Lee, E. Selections from La Bruyère and Vauvenargues. 1902.
Raleigh, W. A. The English Novel. 1891.
Seccombe, T. and Allen, J. W. Age of Shakespeare. Vol. 1, bk. 11, § 4.
I
Whibley, C. , in Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1909.
English character writing should be distinguished from French portraits,
which may have been imitated from Holland or copied from the famous
relazioni in which the Venetian ambassadors depicted the most important
personalities of the court to which they might be attached; see M. de
Boislisle Ann. -Bulletin de la Soc. de l'Hist. de France, t. XXXIII, 1896.
The French portrait consists in a description of the physiognomy, complexion,
figure, appearance and mannerisms of an individual designated under a
pseudonym. This art was cultivated in the salons which flourished during the
a
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first half of the 16th cent. , in such romances as Le Grand Cyrus and Clélie and
in the collection of portraits made under the auspices of Mlle de Montpensier.
After the appearance of Charles Sorel's Description de l'isle de Portraiture,
1659, the art, as a social amusement, began to decay, but reached its consum-
mation in the memoir-writers, especially Saint Simon, and started on a new
stage of development in La Bruyère. Owing to the absence of salons in
England, this style of writing has remained undeveloped, though there are
a few striking exceptions, such as Philautus's description to Psellus of the
Gentlewoman in Euphues and his England (p. 340 of Arber's ed. ), Nashe's
portrait of Harvey in Have with you, the pictures of low-class passengers
in the Cobler of Canterburie and Westward for Smelts, the portrait of
Colonel Hutchinson by his wife and the historical portraiture of the second
half of the 17th cent. On the other hand, the cultivation of portraits, maxims,
etc. , have left French 17th cent. literature poor in character sketches of the
English type, Le Moine's Peintures Morales, 1643, being the nearest parallel
in this period. It should also be noted that the same influence which favoured
the portrait and starved the generic character also hindered the development
of the discursive essay, in spite of Montaigne's example, bat encouraged the
maxime and the pensée, i. e. condensed and aphoristic reflections, of which
the most accomplished master was La Rochefoucauld.
See Cousin, V. , La Société française au XVII Siècle, 1854-1869; Fournel, V. ,
La litt. indépendante et les écrivains oubliés au XVII siècle; Franz, A. , Das
literarische Porträt in Frankreich im Zeitalter Richelieus und Mazarins, 1906;
Lee, E. , Intro. to selections from La Bruyère and Vauvenargues, 1903; Petit
de Julleville, Hist. de la langue et de la litt. francaise, 1897, vol. iv, chap. II;
Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de Femmes, 1840, Causeries du Lundi, 1853, vols. XI,
XIV, Nouveaux Lundis, 1863, vols. V, X.
ESSAY.
Sources:
Epictetus. Dissertationes. Text. Shenkl, H. 1898. Trans. Healey, John. 1610.
Plutarch's Moralia. Bernardakis. 1888-96. Trans. Holland, P. 1603. Vitae
Parallelae. Trans. North, T. 1579.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (not the dramatist). Dialogi; De Beneficiis; Epis-
tolae morales. Text. Haase, F. 1853. Trans. Lodge, Thomas: The
Workes, both Morrall and Natural, of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. 1614.
Montaigne. First appearance of essays, 1580. Revises and expands his work
and adds a third book, 1588. Early trans. by Florio, John, 1603, 2nd ed.
1613.
See Becker, P. A. , Montaignes geistige Entwicklung in Deutsche
Literaturzeitung, 4 Sept. 1909; Bond, R. W. , Montaigne, 1907; Dieckow,
F. A. F. , John Florio's englishe Übersetzung der Essais Montaigne's
und Lord Bacon's, Ben Jonson's und Robert Burton's Verbältnis zu
Montaigne, 1903; Dowden, E. , Montaigne, 1907; Texte, J. , Études de
Litt. Européenne, 1898; Villey, P. , Les sources et l'évolution des Essais
de Montaigne, 1908.
Anticipations in English Literature.
Caxton's prefaces (ante, vol. II1, chap. XIV). Jest-books (especially Merrie
Tales and quicke answers, ibid. chap. v). Andrew Boorde, William Bullein
(ibid. ). Disquisitions on Women (especially the Scholehouse for Women).
Lord Burghley, Precepts or Directions for the well ordering and carriage of
a man's life (printed 1637, though composed in 16th cent. See Peck's Desi-
derata Curiosa, and Kippis's ed. of Biographia Britannica. )
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Collier, J. P. Poetical Decameron. 1820. 3rd, 4th, 5th conversations.
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10
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di
Seccombe, T. and Allen, J. W. The age of Shakespeare. 1904. Vol. I,
bk. 1, § 9.
Shade, O. Satiren u. Pasquille a. d. Reformationszeit. 1862-3.
Warton, T. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the close of the
Sixteenth century. Ed. by Hazlitt, W. C. 1871. Vol. iv, sections
LXII-LXVI.
CHARACTER WRITERS.
Anticipations of the Genre.
Vision concerning Piers the Plowman (allegorical portraits, ante, vol. II,
chap. I); Bartholomaeus Anglicns and Higden (description of national and
social types, ibid. chap. III); Skelton (Bowge of Court: types of courtiers,
vol. III, chap. IV); Barclay (Ship of Fools: types of folly discussed rather
than portrayed, ibid. ); Cock Lorell (glimpses of individual types of lower
classes, chap. v); Mock Testaments (classification according to some dominant
characteristic, ibid. ); Copland's Hye Waye to the Spittel Hous (vivid descrip-
tions of character and appearance from the view of failure in life, ibid. );
Fraternitye of Vagabonds, Caveat and xxv Orders of Knaves (precise
definitions of rogue-nomenclature, ibid. ); T. Lodge's Wits Miserie (portrayal
of devils as impersonations of specifio vices, see above); T. Greene's Quip;
T. Nashe, especially Pierce Penilesse.
Classical Sources.
Aristotle: Rhetoric, Bk 11. Ed. Cope, E. M. , and Sandys, J. E. , 1877.
Ethics, Bk. iv. Ed. Grant, Sir A. , 1857-8. (Except in the case of Earle and
Bacon, Aristotle's influence can be traced only through Theophrastus. )
Theophrastus. Trans. : Casaubon, I. , 1592; Editio ultima recognita . . . aucta
et locupletata, 1617; Healey, J. , 1616; Jebb, R. O. , revised by Sandys, J. E. ,
1909.
English Writers.
Ormerod, Oliver. The Picture of a Papist, and a Discourse of Popish
Paganisme. 1605. The Picture of a Puritane. 1605.
Hall, Joseph. Characters of Virtues and Vices. 1608.
Anon. The Cobler of Canterburie. 1608. ("The exposition of the eight
degrees of Cuckolds. ')
M. , W. The Man in the Moone telling Strange Fortunes. 1609. Rptd
1849, Halliwell, J. O. , Peroy Soc.
Overbury, Thomas. A Wife: now the Widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye.
Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the Choice of a Wife.
Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited Newes,
written by himself and other learned Gentlemen his friends. 1614 ff.
(There had already appeared in the same year A wife, now a Widowe,
without characters). Note contemporary imitations, The Husband, with
commendatory
verses by Ben Jonson, 1614; A second Select Husband, by
John Davies of Hereford, in 1616; The Description of a Good Wife, by
Brathwaite, and the Happy Husband, by Patrick Hannay, 1619; Picturae
loquentes, by Saltonstall, W. , with a Poem of a Maid, 1631 (3); A Wife
not ready made but bespoken, Robert Aylett, 1653. (See D. of N. B.
art. Overbury. ) 1890, Rimbault, E. F. , Library of Old Authors, rpt of
ninth ed. (i. e. in 1616). See Fox, A. W. , A Book of Bachelors, 1899.
Stephens, John. Satyrical Essayes, characters and others. 1615. New
Essayes and Characters. With a new Satyre in defence of the Common
Law and Lawyers: mixt with reproofe against their enemy Ignoramus.
1631. (Vide Brydges, Restituta, vol. iv, 503 ff. (N. & Q. Ser. iv, vol. III,
550). )
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ברוך
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522
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Good and the Badde, or Descriptions of the Worthies and Unworthies of
this Age. 1616. 2nd ed. 1643, under title England's selected characters.
Mynshul, Geffray. Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners.
1618. Rptd 1638; 1821, Edinburgh.
P[arrot), H. Cures for the Itch. Characters, Epigrams, Epitaphs. 1626.
Earle, John. Microcosmographie or a Piece of the World discovered; in
Essays and Characters. 1628 (54 characters). Re-ed. 1811, Bliss, P. ,
with bibliography of Character writers; 1871, Fowler, J. T. (ed. from
a MS among Hunter MSS in Durham Cath. , dated 14 Dec. 1627, with
46 characters of which 3 are unique, collated with printed eds. from which
it frequently differs. Vide N. & Q. Ser. Iv, vols. VIII & 1x); 1897, West,
A. S. , with excellent introduction and notes.
M. , R. Micrologia. Characters or Essayes of Persons, Trades and Places.
1629.
Alexandrinus, Clitus (Richard Brathwaite). Whimzies, or, A new Cast of
Characters. 1631. Rptd 1859, Halliwell, J. 0.
Saltonstall, Wye. Picturae Loquentes. 1631. 2nd ed. 1635.
Lupton, Donald. London and Country Carbonadoed and quartered into
severall Characters. 1630. (See British Bibliographer, vol. 1, 464. ) Bptd
Harl. Miso. (ed. Park), vol. IX.
Anon.
A Strange Metamorphosis of Man, transformed into a Wildernesse.
Deciphered in Characters. 1634. (Noticed by Haslewood in Censura
Literaria, vol. VIII, 284. )
Habington, William. Castara. 2nd ed. 1635, has characters of A mistris, A
wife, A friend; 3rd ed. , 1640, has further addition, The Holy Man.
Anon. A Brown Dozen of Drunkards (ali-ass Drinkhards) whipt and shipt
to the Isle of Gulls. 1648.
For adaptation of the character sketch to party politics, its sub-
sequent development as social satire, especially in the hands of John
Cleveland and Samuel Butler, its application to moral instruction, especially
by William Law (Serious Call to the Unconverted, 1729), see later vols. of
present work.
Works to be consulted :
Baldwin, C. S. Modern Language Association of America, June 1904.
Cross, W. L. Development of the English Novel. 1899.
Greenough, C. N. Studies in the Development of Character-writing in
England. Harvard, 1898. Larger work in preparation,
Halliwell, J. O. Books of Characters. Illustrating habits and manners of
Englishmen, from the reign of James 1st to the Restoration, 1857.
Confused Characters. 1860.
Lee, E. Selections from La Bruyère and Vauvenargues. 1902.
Raleigh, W. A. The English Novel. 1891.
Seccombe, T. and Allen, J. W. Age of Shakespeare. Vol. 1, bk. 11, § 4.
I
Whibley, C. , in Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1909.
English character writing should be distinguished from French portraits,
which may have been imitated from Holland or copied from the famous
relazioni in which the Venetian ambassadors depicted the most important
personalities of the court to which they might be attached; see M. de
Boislisle Ann. -Bulletin de la Soc. de l'Hist. de France, t. XXXIII, 1896.
The French portrait consists in a description of the physiognomy, complexion,
figure, appearance and mannerisms of an individual designated under a
pseudonym. This art was cultivated in the salons which flourished during the
a
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first half of the 16th cent. , in such romances as Le Grand Cyrus and Clélie and
in the collection of portraits made under the auspices of Mlle de Montpensier.
After the appearance of Charles Sorel's Description de l'isle de Portraiture,
1659, the art, as a social amusement, began to decay, but reached its consum-
mation in the memoir-writers, especially Saint Simon, and started on a new
stage of development in La Bruyère. Owing to the absence of salons in
England, this style of writing has remained undeveloped, though there are
a few striking exceptions, such as Philautus's description to Psellus of the
Gentlewoman in Euphues and his England (p. 340 of Arber's ed. ), Nashe's
portrait of Harvey in Have with you, the pictures of low-class passengers
in the Cobler of Canterburie and Westward for Smelts, the portrait of
Colonel Hutchinson by his wife and the historical portraiture of the second
half of the 17th cent. On the other hand, the cultivation of portraits, maxims,
etc. , have left French 17th cent. literature poor in character sketches of the
English type, Le Moine's Peintures Morales, 1643, being the nearest parallel
in this period. It should also be noted that the same influence which favoured
the portrait and starved the generic character also hindered the development
of the discursive essay, in spite of Montaigne's example, bat encouraged the
maxime and the pensée, i. e. condensed and aphoristic reflections, of which
the most accomplished master was La Rochefoucauld.
See Cousin, V. , La Société française au XVII Siècle, 1854-1869; Fournel, V. ,
La litt. indépendante et les écrivains oubliés au XVII siècle; Franz, A. , Das
literarische Porträt in Frankreich im Zeitalter Richelieus und Mazarins, 1906;
Lee, E. , Intro. to selections from La Bruyère and Vauvenargues, 1903; Petit
de Julleville, Hist. de la langue et de la litt. francaise, 1897, vol. iv, chap. II;
Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de Femmes, 1840, Causeries du Lundi, 1853, vols. XI,
XIV, Nouveaux Lundis, 1863, vols. V, X.
ESSAY.
Sources:
Epictetus. Dissertationes. Text. Shenkl, H. 1898. Trans. Healey, John. 1610.
Plutarch's Moralia. Bernardakis. 1888-96. Trans. Holland, P. 1603. Vitae
Parallelae. Trans. North, T. 1579.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (not the dramatist). Dialogi; De Beneficiis; Epis-
tolae morales. Text. Haase, F. 1853. Trans. Lodge, Thomas: The
Workes, both Morrall and Natural, of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. 1614.
Montaigne. First appearance of essays, 1580. Revises and expands his work
and adds a third book, 1588. Early trans. by Florio, John, 1603, 2nd ed.
1613.
See Becker, P. A. , Montaignes geistige Entwicklung in Deutsche
Literaturzeitung, 4 Sept. 1909; Bond, R. W. , Montaigne, 1907; Dieckow,
F. A. F. , John Florio's englishe Übersetzung der Essais Montaigne's
und Lord Bacon's, Ben Jonson's und Robert Burton's Verbältnis zu
Montaigne, 1903; Dowden, E. , Montaigne, 1907; Texte, J. , Études de
Litt. Européenne, 1898; Villey, P. , Les sources et l'évolution des Essais
de Montaigne, 1908.
Anticipations in English Literature.
Caxton's prefaces (ante, vol. II1, chap. XIV). Jest-books (especially Merrie
Tales and quicke answers, ibid. chap. v). Andrew Boorde, William Bullein
(ibid. ). Disquisitions on Women (especially the Scholehouse for Women).
Lord Burghley, Precepts or Directions for the well ordering and carriage of
a man's life (printed 1637, though composed in 16th cent. See Peck's Desi-
derata Curiosa, and Kippis's ed. of Biographia Britannica. )
## p. 524 (#546) ############################################
524
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.
English Essays.
Remedies against Discontentment, drawen into severall Discourses from the
writinges of auncient Philosophers. 1596. (See Arber, E. , A Harmony
of the Essays, etc. , 1895, Prologue, pp. ix and x. )
Greeneham. Diverse sermons and tracts uppon severall textes. 1599.
Essayes by Sir William Corne-waleys. 1600, etc. Essayes of certaine Para.
doxes. 1616. Essayes. Newlie corrected. Discourses upon Seneca the
tragedian. 1632.
Johnson, Robert. Essaies or Rather Imperfect Offers. 1601, etc.
J. , H. The Mirrour of Worldly fame. 1603. Rptd Harl. Misc. 1808, 11, 515.
Anon. Essays of conjecture. 1607.
T[uvill), D[avid). Essaies Politicke and Morall. 1608. Essayes Morall and
Theologicall. 1609, 1629, etc.
Stephens, John. Satyricall Essayes. 1615.
A Discourse against flattery. 1620.
Brathwaite, Richard. Essaies upon the five Senses. 1620. Rptd 1635; 1815.
Horae Subsecivae. Observations and Discourses. 1620. (See N. & Q. Ser. x,
vol. XII, nos. 293 and 296 for attempt to father the essays on Bacon.
Generally attributed to lord Chandos or Gilbert Cavendish. See Brydges,
Sir 8. E. , Censura literaria, 2nd ed.