List of literary dunces
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This is a list of literary dunces – persons, either real or legendary, who are used in literature as targets of satire.
List of literary dunces
- Richard Bentley
- Richard Blackmore
- Richard Busby
- Susanna Centlivre
- Colley Cibber
- Theophilus Cibber
- Thomas Cooke
- Edmund Curll
- James Dalton
- Daniel Defoe
- John Dennis
- Anne Dodd
- John Dryden
- Stephen Duck
- George Duckett
- Dulness
- William Duncombe
- Laurence Eusden
- Charles Gildon
- Zacharey Grey
- John Henley
- Ignoramus
- Giles Jacob
- Charles Johnson
- Arthur Johnston
- Jack Ketch
- Barnaby Bernard Lintot
- John Misaubin
- Nathaniel Mist
- John Oldmixon
- John Ozell
- Namby Pamby
- Ambrose Philips
- James Ralph
- John Rich
- Thomas Shadwell
- Jonathan Smedley
- James Moore Smythe
- Robert Southey
- Nahum Tate
- Lewis Theobald
- Elizabeth Thomas
- John Tutchin
- Robert Walpole
- Leonard Welsted
- Jonathan Wild
- Robert Wilks
- William Wotton