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Restoration BawdyEdited by John Adlard
Categories: 17th Century, Humour, LGBTQ+
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (144 pages) (Pub. Apr 2003) 9781857546972 Out of Stock
Come, child, let us kiss - hang dull, silly wooing;
'Tis time, like our betters, we two should be doing, Kind Fate still assigns, as a custom that's common, To the mistress the master, the man to the woman. Paul Motteux
Sensual pleasure, gentle, violent or comic, is the theme of this anthology of seventeenth-century erotic writing. Restoration Bawdy brings vividly to life a 'masquerading age'. The book draws on high and low culture, and includes courtly poems and works by Rochester, Sedley and Etheridge, as well as broadside ballads, doggerel from almanacs and songs from plays. A number of the pieces have only previously been available in research libraries. The result is a lively social panorama of Restoration England and a cheerfully amoral celebration of the pleasures of the flesh.
Table of Contents
INDEX OF AUTHORS, ANONYMOUS WORKS, PRINTED MISCELLANIES AND MANUSCRIPTS Anacreon Done into English 1683 Antidote against Melancholy 1661 Aubrey, John Ayres, Philip Behn, Aphra Bourne, Reuben Bristol Drollery , 1674 Broadsides Chetham MS Mun. A.4.14. Crowne, John Cupid's Posies , 1674 Davenant, Sir William Dryden, John Duffett, Thomas D'Urfey, Tom Dyce MS 43. Etherege, Sir George Flora's Vagaries , 1670 Harleian MS 6914. John and his Mistress , c.1680 Jordan, Thomas Leanerd, John Lee, Nathaniel Le Neve, Oliver Love's Masterpiece , 1683 Merry Dialogue between Tom the Tailor and his Maid Joan , 1684 Merry Drollery Complete , 1691 Milton, John Motteux, Peter New Academy of Compliments , 1671 New Help to Discourse , 1669 New London Drollery , 1687 Nuage Venales , 1686 Payne, Henry Nevil Penkethman's Jests , 1721 Poor Robin, A Prognostication , 1675 Poor Robin's Almanack , 1687 Powell, George Radcliffe, Alexander Rawlins, Thomas Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Royal Library, Stockholm, MS Vu 69. Secret Sinners, The, c. 1686 Sedley, Sir Charles Settle, Elkanah Shadwell, Thomas Stapylton, Robert Taubman, Matthew Westminster Drollery , 1671 Wilson, John Windsor Drollery , 1672 Wit and Mirth , 1682 Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy , 1699-1700 Wit at a Venture , 1674 Wit's Cabinet , c. 1700 Works of Rochester, Roscommon and Dorset 1718
Praise for John Adlard
'Mr Andrew Marvell (who was a good Judge of Witt) was wont to say that [Rochester] was the best English Satyrist and had the right veine. Twas pitty Death tooke him off so soon.'
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