Product Description

Constant Delights looks - from a rather jaunty angle - at one of the most remarkable and fashionable periods in English history. Peopled with names such as Milton, Pepys, Dryden, Halley, Purcell, Bunyan, Wren, Lely and Kneller, the reign of Charles II (1660-85) was a time of innovation, creativity and beauty. It also had more than its fair share of debauchery - gambling, drinking, sex and violence, to be precise. That's where Constant Delights picks up the story. Constant Delights reports in a lively and readable way on the outrageous characters whose deeds filled newsletters and satires, and who fuelled dinner table and satire talk. Soundly researched, it exposes the fops, the rakes, the rogues, the whores, the slatterns, the bitches. And that's just the men.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #935990 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 279 pages

Review
'And wasts his nights In constant delights Of Revelling, Drinking and Whoreing' From Marvell's Upon his Majesties being made free of the City

About the Author
Graham Hopkins was born in Coventry in 1962. He has a BA (hons) in History. He is the author of several books on social care and the critically acclaimed Nell Gwynne - A Passionate Life, published by Robson Books.