The Latest Breaking News from Charles II

In late April, comedian Jerry Seinfeld went on the New Yorker Radio Hour and re-opened the debate that refuses to die. While spruiking his debut film, Unfrosted, Seinfeld went on a tangent about how, he believes, political correctness has ruined comedy:

Seventeenth-century writer Aphra Behn (1640-89) made her name in London’s theatre world as the playwright who provided the Duke’s Theatre Company (the theatre company chartered by King Charles II at the start of the Restoration era) with some of its biggest hits. Now her Restoration play, The Amorous Prince, has…

A bronze cannon was found on the shipwreck of a warship that was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion in 1665

As the career of the pioneering writer is remembered, an 1688 copy of her novel Oroonoko is the cherry on the cake