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The English Restoration's Filthiest Poet (And Why The Era Needed Him) by Artsjournal1

"With characters like 'Buggeranthos,' 'C__tigratia,' 'C__ticula,' 'Clytoris' and of course 'Fuckadillia,' the late seventeenth-century play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery would seem to be little more than pornography. And yet, in certain critical respects, this bawdy play embodied the Restoration. ... This traumatized world, where all inherited beliefs and moralities were questioned, called out […]

SOURCE: daily.jstor.org at 10:05AM on April 13, 2018

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