But Catherine could never be sharp; and for a moment she only stood, with her hand on the door-knob, looking at her satiric parent, and giving a little laugh.
His best-known plays are the passionate tragedies The Changeling and Women Beware Women, and the cynically satiric city comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
Pastoral eclogues were dialogues between shepherds, which might stage a simple poetry contest or might conceal serious, satiric comments on abuses in the great world under the guise of homely, local concerns.
Another satiric poet of the period was Samuel Butler, whose Hudibras(1663)satirizes Puritanism together with all the intellectual pretensions of the time.