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Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump

Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump

Erato
Erato

Hardcover

HumorHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1734184620
ISBN13: 9781734184624
Publisher: The Bare Life Review
Published: Feb 14 2020
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Sir Robert had composed the most seditious, disgusting, obscene, shameful thing I had ever seen.

It's 1737 and England is on edge: someone has tried to assassinate the king at the theatre, and every stageplay is a satire of the royal family. Enter Prime Minister Robert Walpole with a cunning scheme that will grant him power to censor anything that goes on stage -- by writing the filthiest play ever conceived. All he needs to pull it off is a patsy, which he finds in Henry Giffard, the proprietor of the theatre at Goodman's Fields. But will Giffard cooperate with the Prime Minister's plan, or will obscenity and satire be allowed to overrun the British stage?

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