Appropriating the Restoration: Fictional Place and Time in Rose Tremain’s Restoration: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century England

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Judith Bailey Slagle, East Tennessee State UniversityFollow

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6-8-2015

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Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexual energy on the stage. It was a time of fun for those with the means to partake of it. The “good old days” are, of course, always better from a distance, but writers on through the twentieth century found the Restoration an apt setting for their fictions about prostitution, political intrigue, and tragic or comic historical events, especially for the cinema.

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This document was published with permission from the journal. It was originally published in the The 18th-Century Common.

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Slagle, Judith Bailey. 2015. Appropriating the Restoration: Fictional Place and Time in Rose Tremain’s Restoration: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century England. The 18th-Century Common. http://www.18thcenturycommon.org/?p=1614