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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.914
EAN: 9781854592774
ISBN: 1854592777
Label: Nick Hern Books
Manufacturer: Nick Hern Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Sales Rank: 298744
Studio: Nick Hern Books

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Product Description:
Re-issued alongside the release of John Malkovich's outrageously sexy film, starring Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, Jack Devenport and Malkovich himself. The Libertine was first seen at the Royal Court in 1994, in a production by Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint. The play is based on the life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, friend and confidant of Charles II and the most notorious and licentious rake of his age. Thoroughly modern in its sensibility and in its attitude to Rochester's endless sexual indulgence, it is both an accurate portrait of the period and a very funny comedy of manners. This new film adaptation has been scripted by Stephen Jeffreys and it is unusually faithful to the original play. Produced by John Malkovich, who also cameos as Charles II, directed by Laurence Dunmore, and starring Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton, it promises to be one of the biggest releases of the autumn.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Libertine
Cast: 8m., 5w. (Doubling or extras possible.) "You will not like me. No, I say you will not," taunts the Earl of Rochester at the opening of this riotously funny and intriguing comedy of sexual manners...based on the life of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), poet and satirist. "The Libertine presents Rochester as the ultimate, sensation-seeking product of a decadent era. 'You see I must always exceed, or I don't feel I'm alive,' says the Earl. And when confronted with a comedy based ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Stephen Jeffreys The Libertine
Fantastic read - this one reads really quick and is quite a page turner. Made me want to go and watch the recent film adaptation. I love each character for their wit and honesty; they are truly ones to remember. Well done, Mr. Jeffreys.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent treatment of Rochester's paradoxes
Jeffreys' portrait of Rochester seems designed to titillate Rochester scholars for the play is packed full of references to Rochester's poetry (both the popular lampoons & satires and the more arcane meditations on "nothing" etc...). Though Jeffreys admits that he takes some liberties with the material he deals with the most infamous incidents in the life of Rochester (hatred of poet laureate Dryden, disgust at excesses of Charles II, breaking of the Kings sundial, abandoning his friend Downs ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Inspiring a Movie
This is a pretty good book about John Wilmot (aka the Earl of Rochester), who is not well known, but surely will be soon - due to a movie starring Johnny Depp coming out. As a poet, Wilmot is entertaining and virile. He is obscene and satirical. "The Libertine" does a good job of expressing this, sharing his life, exploring his reasoning for his satire of King Charles, his heroism, the balance between reason and humor that seems to be the dichotomy of Wilmot. We'll see how well the movie does. But, ... Read More
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