John Stubbs’s study of the English civil war has enough colourful characters to inspire a new series of Blackadder If Ben Elton ever writes another series of Blackadder, Reprobates ought to be top of ...
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Cavaliers liked bullfights, so it seems. In 1623, the heir to the British throne and his father's much-resented favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, galloped from London to Madrid on a doomed and ...
Nicola Shulman revels in Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs, a vibrant account of the Royalist poets. John Stubbs is the starry young literary historian whose ...
John Stubbs's Reprobates suggests that there was rather more to the Cavaliers than hedonism, dandyism and royalism, says John Adamson Few stock figures are more easily recognisable than that of the ...
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