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Sodom - or The Quintessence of Debauchery (1684). The name of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is one of the most notorious in English literature. 'Sodom', his most flagrant work, first published in 1684 (4 years after he died of syphilis), was immediately suppressed and destroyed. It is an extraordinary work - a savage, scabrous, and hilarious satire on the debauched, self-indulgent Restoration society - utterly uninhibited, extremely funny and necessarily shocking. For 300 years nobody dared put this on the public stage - until now.
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