Woodcut featured on the title page of Thomas Heywood's "Philocothonista, or, the Drunkard, Opened, Dissected and Anatomized", London, 1635. Included in "Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century", collected and illustrated by J. Ashton. L.P. Thomas Heywood categorizes drunken men into the beasts that they become when consuming alcohol and tobacco. The text is critical of the state of drunkenness albeit in a satirical fashion. Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.