In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of
Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of
clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that
emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage
in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan
argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company
with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate,
consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play.
Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and
satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between
civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of
scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary
fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in
the seventeenth century. This study will provide many new insights
for historians and literary scholars of the period.
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