SOURCE: "Aesopian Examples: The English Fable Collection and its Authors, 1651-1740," in The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740, pp. 14-47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
In the following excerpt, Lewis examines the ways in which British writers such as John Ogilby and Samuel Richardson either modified Aesop's fables or alluded to them in their own writing in order to reflect the political instability that occurred in the country during the late-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries.
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