# Bonynge — Poetry character guide

> Bonynge in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the great Bonynge

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

The self-styled 'great Bonynge,' a figure whose grandiosity Bierce holds up for the reader's skeptical amusement.

## In the story

### [The Mackaiad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-mackaiad)

The great Bonynge, who petitions the British Queen and later makes faces at Mackay, instigating the feud.

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