Burgess
Anthony Burgess
Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
James Branch Cabell
Cabell
Mary Therese McCarthy
McCarthy
Mary McCarthy
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Trumbull
Ring Lardner
John Trumbull
Lardner
P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
William Wycherley
Spark
Muriel Spark
satirist
Wycherley
Muriel Sarah Spark
Dame Muriel Spark
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes
Benny Hill
Hill
Alfred Hawthorne
Nancy Freeman Mitford
Arnold
Mitford
Matthew Arnold
Nancy Mitford
Irving
William Hazlitt
Hazlitt
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan
John Irving
Momus
du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier
satire
Daphne du Maurier
Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Marianne Moore
comedist
Thomas Hardy
Hardy
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
Beerbohm
Malcolm Lowry
Coward
Clarence Malcolm Lowry
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Noel Coward
Lowry
Max Beerbohm
satirically
Erewhon
Spender
MSTer
Golding
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Stephen Spender
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Scott
Walter Scott
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson
Charles Dickens
First Baron Tennyson
Dickens
Sir Walter Scott
satirical
Tennyson
gagsmith
Charles John Huffam Dickens
send-up
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Wilkins Micawber
farce
farce comedy
Van Doren
Carl Van Doren
Galsworthy
Micawber
travesty
John Galsworthy
Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Parker
yabbi
Powys
libel
Gilbertian