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Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham - Volume I (Hardcover)
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Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham - Volume I (Hardcover)
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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).
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