In a comical folklore manner, the play satirizes the way of understanding of the foreign fashion waves as an evolution in the human progress.

This one-act play satirizes Bobos, or bourgeois bohemians, for their devotion to comfortable living and left-leaning views.

The play satirizes Coryat's Crudities, the travelogue by Thomas Coryat published in that year.

This play satirized francophile Vietnamese, through the character of Len, a young Vietnamese completely Frenchified after his studies in France.

The play satirizes the college recorder, Francis Brackyn, a "constant adversary of the university" who is represented as the Ignoramus of the title.

Other plays satirize anti-suffragists as buffoons or narrow-minded individuals opposing progress.

Fielding's play within a play satirized the way in which the London theatre scene, in his view, abused the literary public by offering new and inferior genres.

The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess.

The play satirizes the fledgling nation by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past.

Crowne's play satirized the Puritans as Pharisees; it was a popular success.