Flyting (Literary Definition)

Flyting Facts:

• Flyting is a slanging match in verse, typically between 2 poets.
• The term "flyt" is Scottish for “quarreling,” or “contention.”
• After the Middle Ages, flyting became obsolete in Scottish literature.

Flyting Example:

• Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie (early 16th-century) - contest between poets Walter Kennedy & William Dunbar.

Scene from John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696) - Fashion and Foppington quarrel (3.1)

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