Postscript: The flight of the butterflies. Prologue: Jacobean and Caroline political trends -- Denham's 'Cooper's Hill' and the constitution: a royalist viewpoint -- Marvell and the constitution: a parliamentarian viewpoint -- Liberty and order: the wider spectrum Filmer -Hobbes -The Putney debates -Locke -- Milton: the political pamphlets and Paradise lost -- Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel and the popish plot -- The satirical aftermath: Dryden, Oldham, Shadwell and Settle -- pt. 2. The woman's workhouse: Prologue: 'Love, the life of life' -- The inheritance from the Middle Ages -- Propagation and contraception in the seventeenth century -- Love, sex and attitudes to the women in the poetry -- The theory and practice of Protestant marriage -- Milton: from tracts on divorce to Paradise lost -- 'Imparadist in one anothers arms' or The ecclesiastical mouse-trap': marriage in Restoration comedy -- Postscript: The flight of the butterflies.
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