Author: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191568686
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the rhymed heroic drama. Historians remember Buckingham as an opponent who helped topple Clarendon from power in 1667, as a member of the 'Cabal' government in the early 1670s, and as an ally of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the political crisis of 1678-1683. The duke was prominent among the 'court wits' (Rochester, Etherege, Sedley, Dorset, Wycherley, and their circle); he was closely associated with such writers as Butler and Cowley; he was a conspicuous champion of religious toleration and a friend of William Penn. No edition of Buckingham has been published since 1775, partly because his work presents horrendous attribution problems. He was (probably) adapter or co-author of six plays (two of them vastly successful for more than a century) including one in French that appears here in English for the first time. He is also associated with nine topical pieces (variously political, religious, and satiric) and some twenty poems of wildly varying type. The 'Buckingham' commonplace book has previously been published only in fragmentary form. Almost all of these works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time. This edition is a companion venture to Harold Love's important edition of Rochester (OUP, 1999).
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097139
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of thirty-three. This edition of Rochester's poetry, brilliantly annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth, has been a classic work for decades. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey; Daniel Defoe quoted him often; Tennyson recited his poems; Voltaire admired his satire for 'energy and fire'; Goethe could quote him in English; and Hazlitt said that 'his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds' and that 'his contempt for everything that others respect almost amounts to sublimity'. Book jacket.
Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853264412
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: British Library. Department of Printed Books
Publisher: London : British Museum for the British Library Board
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
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Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Author: Großbritannien
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Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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