26 Facts About The Dunciad

Theobald's edition of Shakespeare was not as imperfect as The Dunciad would suggest; it was, in fact, far superior to the edition Pope had himself written in 1725.

When planning the Dunciad he based the character Dulness on Queen Caroline, as the fat, lazy and dull wife.

The Dunciad's poem celebrates a war, rather than a mere victory, and a process of ignorance, and Pope picks as his champion of all things insipid Lewis Theobald and Colley Cibber .

The Dunciad says that he wishes to avoid elevating the targets of the satire by mentioning their names, but he similarly did not want innocents to be mistaken for the targets.

The Dunciad had "smoothed" some of Shakespeare's lines, had chosen readings that eliminated puns, and had, indeed, missed several good readings and preserved some bad ones.

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The Dunciad's satire is political and cultural in very specific ways.

The Dunciad attacks hired pens, the authors who perform poetry or religious writing for the greatest pay alone, who do not believe in what they are doing.

The Dunciad is then transported to the Temple of Dulness, where he has visions of the future.

The Dunciad's therefore decides that Theobald will be the new King.

The Dunciad decides to give up poetry and become an entirely hired pen for Nathaniel Mist and his Mist's Journal.

The Dunciad therefore collects all the books of bad poetry in his library along with his own works and makes a virgin sacrifice of them by setting fire to the pile.

The Dunciad hears the prayer, passes a pile of feces down, and catapults Curll to the victory.

The Dunciad says that Grub Street will be Dulness's Mount Parnassus, where the goddess will "Behold a hundred sons, and each a dunce" .

The Dunciad first looks to literary critics, who are happiest when their authors complain the most.

Three Book The Dunciad has an extensive inversion of Virgil's Aeneid, but it structures itself heavily around a Christological theme.

The Dunciad's is at war with the men of wit, and she can be opposed.

In 1741, Pope wrote a fourth book of the Dunciad and had it published the next year as a stand-alone text.

The Dunciad began revising the whole poem to create a new, integrated, and darker version of the text.

The most obvious change from the three-book to the four-book The Dunciad was the change of hero from Lewis Theobald to Colley Cibber.

The champion of splattering in The Dunciad B is William Arnal, a party author of the British Journal who had gotten ten thousand pounds as a political hack.

The implied homosexual couple of critics from the Dunciad A are cut, but a mass of nameless poets contend, "who foremost shall be dam'd to Fame", and altogether,.

The Dunciad's operas make too much sense, have too strong a plot, and are too masculine in their performance.

The Dunciad is outshone in darkness by one Benson, who is even more absurd, in that he begins putting up monuments of John Milton, striking coins and medals of Milton, and translating Milton's Latin poetry and who had then passed from excessive Milton fanaticism to fanaticism for Arthur Johnston, a Scottish physician and Latin poet.

The Dunciad's is pregnant with his child and destined for the life of a prostitute, and the lord is going to run for Parliament so that he can avoid arrest.

The Dunciad is the natural predator for idling nobles, for he is a forger of antiquities who teaches the nobles to value their false Roman coins above their houses and their forged Virgil manuscripts above their own clothing.

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The Dunciad serves Dulness by teaching her servants to vaunt their stupidity with their wealth.