Sodom, or, The quintessence of debauchery
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Type of record: Book
Title: Sodom, or, The quintessence of debauchery
Classmark: Elliott Collection/ROC
Creator(s): Rochester, John Wilmot earl of (1647-1680)
Publisher: Olympia Press
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): 1957
Language: English
Size and medium: 123 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/351033
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003522509705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
"... Sodom, and was published at Antwerp in 1684...by the E. of R.; no copy of this edition is known; one is said to have been burnt by Richard Heber. Two manuscripts are extant; one is in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 7312, pp. 118-45, a volume containing many of Rochester's authentic compositions), and the other is in the town library of Hamburg. The piece is improbably said to have been acted at court; it was doubtless designed as a scurrilous attack on Charles II. In a short poem purporting to be addressed to the author of the play (in Rochester's collected poems), he mockingly disclaimed all responsibility for it, and it has been attributed to a young barrister named John Fishbourne, of whom nothing is practically known (Baker, Biogr. Dram.). Internal evidence unhappily suggests that Rochester had the chief hand in the production. French adaptations are dated 1744, 1752, and 1767 (cf. Pisanus Fraxi, Centuria Librorum Absconditorum, London, privately printed, 1879)" -- DNB.
Additional description
Presentation inscription from Graham Greene to John Hayward on half-title page.
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