Microcosmography

A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.

At a glance A small masterpiece of the character-writing that flourished in its age. In the age of Shakespeare and Jonson, a fashion arose for the brief, pointed prose… What it's about Microcosmography offers a series of short character sketches, each… Together they compose a shrewd, affectionate, and often satirical portrait of a society.

Microcosmography offers a series of short character sketches, each capturing a familiar figure of the day, the scholar, the tavern-keeper, the pretender, the honest man, in a few deft and pointed paragraphs.