The scandalous life of England's most notorious libertine, the Earl of Rochester, portrayed by Johnny Depp inThe LibertineRestoration England witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literature, music,
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One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his inc
A close look at an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, with Charles II as king—a nation beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwel
