My favourite satires are Confidence-Man and Gravity's Rainbow. I also enjoyed Juvenal's satires and Don Quixote to some extent.

I really liked Gulliver's Travels.

>>25467933
>Me Liberal
>So smart
>So good
>They stupid
>They evil
>All of them

>>25467933
My substack

>>25467933
Both literary wise and in terms of actual impact, the biggest satire ever is certainly Le Mariage de Figaro (and the whole Figaro trilogy with the Barber of Seville and the Guilty Mother) by Beaumarchais.
Half of Europe went from treating the social order of the 18th century as sacrosanct to a subject of mockery after reading/seeing it (or at least the muscial adaptation by Mozart).

>>25467933
I look like this and say this.

>>25467966
but people don't love Quixote because it's satire, they just love it because it's good in it's own right
noone reads Quixote and goes like "damn he really showed those stupid chivalric romancers"
I don't know what my point was in writing this but anyway

>>25467933
There is literally only one Satyr play that still exists - Polyphemus by Euripides

We just have a general idea of the genre as being bawdy and against authority

>>25467933
>loves his country while hating 93% of the people who live in it
Yes. I can admire my nation’s history and institutions and founding ethos without accepting the moral rot that’s taken hold of them

>>25467933
>93% of the people who live it in
This isn't even true now, let alone back then when WASPs were still the majority.