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When the London theaters reopened in 1660, after having been shuttered by the Puritans for 18 years, the Restoration decided that Shakespeare needed rewriting. Taking its cue from Ben Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature...
The people threw off Puritanism like a corset, and expressed their relief in "dancing, singing, eating, drinking, swearing, gambling, blaspheming, whoring, cockfighting, dogfighting, bearbaiting, bull-baiting, horse-baiting bonfire-burning, gunpowder-exploding." At Charles's coronation, his health was drunk so often that the streets were full of vomiting...
Had he not been a thundering liar. Frank Harris would have been a great autobiographer. He shared with the major self-portrait artists-Cellini, Pepys, Boswell and Rousseau-the paradoxical but necessary combination of a surging pride and a vestigial sense of shame. But he had the crippling disqualification that...
Dors & Drawers. From Aberdeen to Bath, boys cracked jokes that the Opies trace to Queen Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still...
Members of Harvard's first class included Henry Saltonstall, son of the founder of the Massachusetts clan, and Sir George Downing, who signed on as a ship's schoolmaster after graduation, arrived in England and soon became a confidential operative for Cromwell. His historical distinctions: he built the...