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The Wits of Windsor, a Milton-ian Pun
The Three Cranes in Thames Street was a famous tavern as early as the reign of James I. It was one of the taverns frequented by the wits in Ben Jonsons time
Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635). Spanish playwright and poet, one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature. Colored engraving
Gulliver in LuggnaggGulliver is shown the aged Struldbrugs, who have lost wits, memory and health, acquiring in exchange all kinds of deformity
Cervantes reads his La Galatea to his wife Dona CatalinaMiguel de Cervantes, a famous Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, sits reading to his lover, Dona Catalina, his La Galatea, of which she was his inspiration. Date: 1585
Sir Charles Sedley (1639 - 1701) - English wit and dramatist, member of the Restoration " court wits", M.P. and legislator from 1668 onwards
Emanuel WitzEMANUEL WITZ no doubt he was one of the Witz : was he also one of the wits, one of those blokes whose ludicrous jokes have all his acquaintance in fits ? Date: 18th century
Hermann WitsHERMANN WITS Dutch calvinist churchman Date: 1636 - 1708
A French Gentleman enquires after the health of an idiotA smart French Gentleman enquires after the health of an obvious idiot. " Vat as been ze mattare? Zey tell me you af not ad ze good ealths
Shah in his CarThe Shah of Persia - present- day Iran - drives through the streets of Tehran and scares the wits out of his subjects
Ophelia CuckooOphelia loses her wits
Under the MistletoeA shyly smiling girl wits neath the mistletoe
