Title: The libertine
First published: 1995
Description: "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is the Libertine. Poet. Friend and confidant of Charles II. Notorious rake. An anti-monarchist Royalist, an atheist converted to Christianity, his contradictory morals are never more tested than when he falls in love with the actress Elizabeth Barry. Thoroughly modern in its attitude to Rochester's sexual indulgence, with all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration comedy, the play is an incisive critique of an age of excess."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Drama, Courts and courtiers, Poets, History, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Court and courtiers
Places: Great Britain
People: John Wilmot Rochester Earl of (1647-1680)
Time periods: Restoration, 1660-1688
LC classification: PR6060.E424 L53 1995