3. Born: 1612 Death: 1680
Samuel Butler is remembered now chiefly
for a long satirical poem titled “Hudibras”
He was the son of farmer who befriended
Thomas Hobbes and Sir William D Averant.
4. Hudibras is an English mock heroic
narrative poem from the 17th century
written by Samuel Butler.
Hudibras is perhaps the first great
poetic satire in english.
This burlesque romance is of three
parts:
First Part – 1663
Second Part- 1664
Third Part – 1678
5. It was delightedly acclaimed at court of Charles II
as a brilliant attack on the Puritans, but in facts it
was something more complex and more interesting
than that.
Hudibras is painly modeled upon the Don Quixote
of Cervates, the wonderful Spanish burlesque
romance.
Hudibras was written in an iambic tetramer in
closed coupltes with suprising rhymes.
It describes the adventures of a fanatical justice of
peace, Sir Hudibras and of his squire, Ralpho in
their endeavor to put down all innocent pleasure.
6. In Hudibras and Ralpho the two
extreme types of the Puritan
party, Presbyterians and
independents are mercilessly
ridiculed.
When the poem first appeared
in public, in 1663 after
circulating secretly for years in
manuscript, it became at once
enormously popular.
7. HUDIBRAS (The Knight)
RALPHO (The Squire)
SIDROPHEL (The
Astrologer)
THE WIDOW(Hudibras
tries to woo her)
8. Hudibras is Presbyterian Knight, thick and stout.
He has an orange browny colour beards, always
carries extra food.
Ralpho is a tailor by trade, but his belief in the
efficacy of divine revelations to the individual
makes him something of a religious oracle.
9. Crowdero, a fiddler with a wooden leg.
Orsin, leader of beak keeper.
Talgol, a butcher.