Sodom, or The Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy.
[Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of] E. of R.
Sold by Antiquariat Ars Amandi, Berlin, Germany
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Add to basketSold by Antiquariat Ars Amandi, Berlin, Germany
AbeBooks Seller since 28 May 2001
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Add to basketKl.8°: 17,3 x 11 cm. 1 Bl., 43 S., 1 Bl. Handeinband in Kalbsleder mit Fronttitel. Eins von 400 handnumerierten Exemplaren. Nachdruck nach dem einzig existierenden Exemplar. Als dieses bei Sotheby's versteigert wurde, sprach das Auktionshaus von der 'Quintessenz des Luderlebens' ("the quintessence of debauchery"), die Presse vielfach schlichtweg vom ältesten Porno der Welt ("world's oldest porn"). In dem Theaterstück geht es um den König von Sodom, der die freie Liebe propagiert, d.h. besonders den Analkoitus in allen Konstellationen. Aber es gibt auch eine Moral; das Land wird heimgesucht von einer Epidemie von Geschlechtskrankheiten und der König verliert sein Reich. Pornografisch in jeder Zeile, handelt es sich aber auch um eine Satire auf den Hof von Karl II., nach dem Sturz der Puritaner unter Oliver Cromwell - eine Zeit, in der Ausschweifungen an der Tagesordnung waren. Kein einziges Exemplar aus der Entstehungszeit konnte bisher nachgewiesen werden; auch eine Ausgabe des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde aufgrund des pornografischen Inhaltes vernichtet. Das älteste Stück geschriebener Pornografie in der englischen Sprache, hier zugänglich in einem bibliophil gestalteten Nachdruck. ------ Printed around 1725. Here: Facsimile reprint, no date. Small 8vo. 1p, 43 numbered pages, 1 p. Handbound in calf with title on front plate. One of 400 numbered copies. Reprinted after the only one exististing copy. When this was auctioned by Sotheby's, the auction house talked of "the first printed pornography on English literature, a unique copy of the quintessence of debauchery"; the press just named it the "world's oldest porn". Sodom, fashioned as a 'closet drama', centres on a decision made by the lustful King of Sodom and its dire consequences. Bored by the "drudgery" of normal sex, the king decides to "set the nation free" by allowing "buggary" to be "us'd thro' all the land". Then follows scenes in which acts of copulation, buggary, masturbation, fellatio and bestiality are enacted, recalled or prepared for "of stage". Courtiers, ladies-in-waiting, and especially Queen Cuntigratia, contrive to find satisfaction with different partners and enthuse on the joys of sexual diversity. "Although in every sense, and almost every line, pornographic, the play has two primary purposes, one literary, the other political. One aim is the production of a hilarious burlesque, the other to satirise uncompromisingly the court of Charles II and he notoriously lecherous king himself" (Peter Beal). By the 19th century, only two copies survived. The one was destroyed in the 1830s by the executors of the great book collector, Richard Heber, horrified at finding it in his library. The unique copy now accessible in this carefully done reprint. --------- |Traduction française sur demande.|.
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