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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court - Politics, Drama, Sexuality (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court - Politics, Drama, Sexuality (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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"Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama,
Sexuality" examines the performative nature of Restoration
libertinism by reading reports of libertine activities and texts of
libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of
Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William
Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined,
performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive
drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This
eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart
ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and
the king's and his subjects' private consciences. Although this
eruption was contained by the early 1680s, the libertine
performances this book analyzes nevertheless played an important
part in the history of English radicalism.
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