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921552
  • Title
    The Farce of Sodom, attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with additional material by Donald Friend, 1980
  • Creator
  • Call number
    SAFE/MLMSS 3868/Item 1X (Safe 2/5)
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1980
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    921552
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : Negatives of selected pages filed at FM1/2086-2088
  • Physical Description
    1 outsize item of textual material
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Donald Friend, born in 1915, studied with Dattilo Rubbo, Sydney Long and later in London at the Westminster School. A close associate and companion of Russell Drysdale, he became prominent during the Second World War.
  • Scope and Content
    This manuscript illustrated with collage, pen and ink drawings and watercolours of stage sets and costume designs was published by Gryphon Books in a limited edition of 200 copies to mark the tri-centenary of the Earl of Rochester's death. The association of Sodom to Rochester is doubtful, however, as Donald Friend points out in the foreword. A poet and libertine of Charles II's court, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680, gained a reputation for amorous lyrics, obscene rhymes and mordant satires in verse. It was a common habit of the times to ascribe any poems of unusual indecency to him. Contemporaries were not agreed that Sodom was his work and the fact that he wrote a critical poem, 'On the Author of a Play called Sodom', also included in this manuscript, makes it unlikely that he himself was the author
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (9-165C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
  • General note

    Keyword subjects:
    Farce
  • Creator/Author/Artist
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