ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Satires from The Cap and Bells, or, The Jealousies. Lord Byron, or alternatively, the Prince Regent, both of whom were known to be promiscuous. The Church of England was against the Regent’s divorce plans. Keats supplements this by referring to the plethora of material in the form of cartoons and scurrilous verse that was generated in 1819–20 by the Prince Regent’s attempt to divorce his wife. In 1795 the Regent had been pressurised into his marriage to Caroline of Brunswick by his father, George III, and the government of the day. Keats is possibly alluding to the Prince Regent’s marriage and is parodying the style of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century imprints.
