Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump - Hardcover

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9781734184624: Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1734184620 ISBN 13: 9781734184624
Verlag: Alumbra Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

"Sir Robert had composed the most seditious, disgusting, obscene, shameful thing I had ever seen."

It's 1737 and England is on edge: someone has tried to assassinate the king at the theatre, and every stageplay is a satire of the royal family. Enter Prime Minister Robert Walpole with a cunning scheme that will grant him power to censor anything that goes on stage -- by writing the filthiest play ever conceived. All he needs to pull it off is a patsy, which he finds in Henry Giffard, the proprietor of the theatre at Goodman's Fields. But will Giffard cooperate with the Prime Minister's plan, or will obscenity and satire be allowed to overrun the British stage?

Based on true events, Slick Filth includes a recreation of the notorious play The Golden Rump, which so offended Parliament that new censorship laws were enacted for the first time in England's history. The book is typeset in historical fonts, making you feel like you've been pulled back in time to watch the drama unfold first-hand.

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Verlag
Alumbra Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1734184620
ISBN 13 
9781734184624
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
110
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