Further Reading
- Curtiss, Joseph Toy. "Butler's Sidrophel." PMLA XLIV, No. 4 (December 1929): 1066-1078. (Focuses on Sidrophel, the fraudulent astrologer in Hudibras.)
- Daves, Charles W. Introduction to Characters, Samuel Butler, pp. 1-27. Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. (Discusses Butler's biographical history, the character tradition before Butler, and Butler's own characters.)
- De Quehen, Hugh. Introduction to Prose Observations, Samuel Butler, pp. xvii-xxxviii. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. (Discusses the publication history of Butler's work.)
- Edwards, Thomas R. "The Hero Emasculated: Hudibras and Mock-Epic." In Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes, pp. 39-44. London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. (Analyzes Butler's satiric distancing from the world of political controversy in Hudibras.)
- Engler, Balz. "Hudibras and the Problem of Satirical Distance." English Studies 60 (1979): 436-443. (Discusses the critical reputation of Hudibras over time.)
- Horn, William C. "Hard Words in Hudibras." Durham University Journal 75 (June 1983): 31-43. (Explores Butler's attack on the abusive and violent language associated with the Commonwealth period.)
- Miner, Earl Roy. "Butler: Hating Our Physician." In The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden, pp. 158-197. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974. (Provides an overview of criticism about Hudibras.)
- Nevo, Ruth. "The Wrong Side of the Heros Outward …" In The Dial of Virtue: A Study of Poems on Affairs State in the Seventeenth Century, pp. 221-240. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963. (Examines Butler's dissection of the problem of decorum in style and his reappraisal of the nature of heroes and hero worship.)
- Quintana, Ricardo. "Samuel Butler: A Restoration Figure in a Modern Light." ELH 18 (1951): 7-31. (Discusses Butler's experiments in satiric techniques and his critical theory concerning the place and function of satire and comedy.)
- Seidel, Michael. "The Internecine Romance: Butler's Hudibras." In Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne, pp. 95-135. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. (Discusses how Hudibras is the summa of counter-romance in the seventeenth century.)
- Veldkamp, Jan. "Butler and the Puritans." In Samuel Butler: The Author of Hudibras, pp. 98-167. Hilversum: Electr. Drukkerij "De Atlas," 1924. (Focuses on Hudibras as a satire of Puritanism.)
- Wasserman, George R. "'A Strange Chimaera of Beasts and Men': The Argument and Imagery of Hudibras, Part I." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 XIII, No. 3 (Summer 1973): 405-21. (Reinterprets Hudibras as a poem concerned with general human nature, satirizing man's ethical pretensions.)
- Wasserman, George R. "Carnival in Hudibras." ELH 55, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 79-97. (Discusses Butler's use of carnival, images to point out hypocrisy.)
- Wasserman, George R. "Samuel Butler and the Problem of Unnatural Man." Modern Language Quarterly 31, No. 2 (June 1970): 179-194. (Focuses on Butler's interpretation of the myth of the Fall and the paradox of man's unnaturalness.)
- Wasserman, George R. Hudibras. In Samuel "Hudibras" Butler, pp. 46-72. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. (Discusses the genesis of Hudibras.)
- Wilding, Michael. "The Last of the Epics: The Rejection of the Heroic in Hudibras and Paradise Lost." In Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, pp. 173-204. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. (Discusses Butler's transformation of the epic into the burlesque epic in Hudibras.)
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