ABSTRACT
Social and political life of seventeenth-early eighteenth century England witnessed both preservation and transition of Aesop’s fable. Augustan fabulists took a special interest in using Aesop’s beasts to pass on a political message throughout the period. These fables were an essential part of cultural battlefield that accommodated conflicts as well as negotiations after the Revolution of 1688. This paper aims at highlighting the political representation of Aesop’s fables and the social unrest that inspired some of the famous collections of Aesop’s fables with their reflections. The two collections taken into account for this paper are Roger L’Estrange’s and Samuel Croxall’s fables with their interpretation.
