1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

"1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" is a satirical work by Mark Twain that takes place in Queen Elizabeth's quarters in the year 1601. It features a conversation between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and a few others. The discussion revolves around topics like farting and sexual misdeeds, and the language used is quite crude. Mark Twain himself admitted that the work contains no decent language. Overall, it is a humorous and irreverent take on the Tudor era and its figures.