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Staging Early Modern Women
A review of Peggy Thompson’s Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women’s Desire, Deception, and Agency (Bucknell University Press, 2012) and Brett Wilson’s A Race of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688–1745 (Bucknell University Press, 2012).
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Making Monkeys of Important Men: Performance Satire and Rochester's \Alexander Bendo's Brochure\
This essay explores a unique and undervalued text by Rochester, Alexander Bendo's Brochure (1676). More exactly, it focuses on a wholly unconsidered element of this satire: its live enactment. Rochester not only wrote using the persona of Dr. Alexander Bendo, an Italian Mountebank, but for several weeks in the City of London he played the part of Bendo as well. I argue that the theatrical presentation must take precedence over the textual presentation in our assessment of this work, and that Rochester's piece is best studied as a performance satire. Rochester's staging of Bendo is a striking example of seventeenth-century libertine culture combining political and social critique with the sensuous experience of baroque theatricality. Moreover, in their condemnation of the politics of Charles II, Rochester's dramatic and printed texts enact important innovations in the practice of early modern satire as a means to comment on the emerging modern state. In substance and mood, Rochester's innovations anticipate certain kinds of political satire seen on television today.
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Shaftesbury and Monmouth as Lords of Misrule: Dryden and Menippean Transformations
Combe places John Dryden's two satires into the literary and cultural practice. He wants to assert as well that Dryden uses elements of the carnivalesque differently in his two works--Mac Flecknoe and Absalom and Achitophel--to achieve different satiric ends. Clearly, a large part of this difference is the distinct nature of the two poems, in which Mac Flecknoe is a literary satire wherein Shadwell is masterfully portrayed as a merely foolish, humorous and harmless mock king. Absalom and Achitophel, on the other hand, is a political polemic that employs carnivalistic element of the Lord of Misrule to portray Shaftesbury and Mammoth as false, accursed, satanic, and truly dangerous threats to legitimate kingship.
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Clandestine Protest against William III in Dryden's Translations of Juvenal and Persius
While John Dryden dared make no formal attack on the government of William III, he was not prevented from making frequent clandestine protests in his later plays and translations. Dryden's translation of Juvenal and Persius is discussed.
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\But Loads of Sh – Almost Choked the Way\: Shadwell, Dryden, Rochester, and the Summer of 1676
Poet John Dryden's remorseless attack on playwright Thomas Shadwell's works may have been driven by Dryden's own need to maintain his reputation as a writer in the face of competition from the younger poets of his time. In 1676 Shadwell had already written successful plays, a fact that Dryden continuously deplored in essays on literary practice. The counteroffensive against Dryden was joined by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who was equally vilified by Dryden.
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