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Beds of Luxury and the Sleepers’ Sorrows in Satirical Tale
A weekly private gathering in town reads a satirical essay on beds as a metaphor for manners and politics. Dr Bedwin’s Dormitive Sciences piece playfully classifies beds from Field to Death, Bridal, and Bed of Justice, lampooning royal and religious figures while riffing on sleepers, dreams, and a Parliament’s bedchamber politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Connery
Bedwin
Bedminster
Down
Ireland
Pofferson
Kite
Kircher
France
Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Duke of Marlborough
Oxford
Bolingbrooke