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Cavaliers, clubs, and literary culture : Sir John Mennes, James Smith, and the Order of the Fancy

Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture is centered around the lives and poetry of Sir John Mennes (a naval officer) and his friend James Smith (a debauched cleric) in Stuart and Interregnum England. It explores the largely uncharted territory between the official culture of the court and the often oppositional culture of the city by examining the clubs of city wits, stage actors, and would-be courtiers that flourished during the early and middle years of the seventeenth century
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1994