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Restoration England Charles II, the Arts, and Pornography
Title
Restoration England [electronic resource (video)] : Charles II, the Arts, and Pornography / TVF International (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c1995.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (25 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 29, 2013.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This program is not for those who attach fig leaves to Michelangelos. The historical fact is that the pendulum in 17th-century England made some wide sweeps, from the Virgin Queen to the witch-loving James I, the beheaded Charles I, the Puritans, and the final counter-swing, the ultimate negation of Puritanism: the Restoration. Charles II was a libertine, rake, roue, and the model of sexual excess for his countrymen. The chronicler of London, Samuel Pepys, collected erotica; Henry Purcell, composer of some of England's loftiest anthems, wrote bawdy ballads. The program shows some of the excesses of this period, sometimes executed with great artistry, more often not. Regardless, the role of sex in Restoration England cannot be downplayed-politically, because it was the king who created and dominated the style, and artistically, because this was the way station between the lofty Metaphysical poets and the loftier Age of Reason.
Variant and related titles
Charles II, the Arts, and Pornography
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: TVF International (Firm), 1995.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
13 & up.
Contents
17th Century Liberation (1:13)
Indulging Desire (2:47)
"L'Ecole des Filles" (2:17)
Focus on Sexuality (2:03)
Absolutism (2:39)
17th Century Ballad Sheets (1:27)
Libertine (1:43)
Women vs. Male Writers (2:19)
Guilty Pleasures? (2:52)
Earl of Rochester Humiliated (2:43)
Sexuality After the Restoration (1:45)
Credits: Restoration England: Charles II, the Arts, and Pornography (0:28)
Videorecording number
6126 Infobase
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
TVF International (Firm).
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