Erectile dysfunction provided Rochester with material for mock-tirades; disappointment takes a less physiological ground and a more analytic tone, as if in resignation to inevitability, when he reflects in a letter to his wife on 'soe greate a disproportion t'wixt our desires & what [is] ...
Notes on John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester.The article focuses on the marriage between John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, to heiress Elizabeth Mallet. A transcription of a letter from Rochester's mother, Lady Anne Rochester, to Sir Ralph Verney dated February 15, 1666/7 is presented ...
when travelling through the hills of Poitou, escorted by Patrick, Earl of Salisbury, and his men. The party were ambushed by Eleanor’s rebellious vassals, Geoffrey and Guy de Lusignan. Salisbury and his men were travelling, unarmoured, when the de Lusignans fell upon them...
Campau • (313) 892-9689 BUCK!for only aCAWharBhacEeterrEseARlwina&ystWAoelwcGomnAe! McaEnOyFouPOgeOtL Only at Jean's. Only on Wednesdays & Thursdays. Hamtramck's #1 Neighborhood Bar Since 1971 Small's: Sundays - Nurse your week- end hangover with Dave and Melody, $1 off every...
That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ed. by Nicholas Fisher (review) 81 the intrinsic relationship between character and audience, much less between political and theatrical cultures. Not that there is anything inherently wrong or objectionable about Mr. Bull's commentaries ...
That August, Earl Carroll whom I had not seen since our Liberty Loan flight from Hazelhurst during the First World War dropped in at Leroy for a visit, practically unchanged and still on the high road for beauty. Three months later, I was commissioned Lieutenant Commander in the United ...
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)O'Neill, John
The Earl of Rochester is becoming increasingly recognized as a major poet of the Restoration Period. This book explores the full range and variety of the poet's work. The book is split into three sections. The first group of essays offer complementary but contrasting interpretations of love and...
The Tempest, Aphra Behn's The Rover, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's Valentinian, and Nahum Tate's A Duke and No Duke---offers a model for the workings of adaptive art based on the idea of negotiation, of the work or negotium necessarily involved in the process of adaptation itself....