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England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Restoration of Women in the Royal Court
In Shakespeare's time, all roles were played by men. Now in the restoration, you could have women playing women and men playing men. And eventually it was allowed for women to perform and act on stage before a public audience - which had never been allowed before. The king himself especially loved indulging in these sort of decadent pleasures, partly as a way of really sticking his thumb in the eye of the puritans, or what was left of them. John wilmot, the earl of rochester, who was a courtier and sometimes soldier, and an extreme lewd and explicit satirical writer; he embraced this mentality of hedonism.
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