Tag Archives: John Wilmot

Sexual Misconduct in the Classics

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2014

A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "The Lover: A Ballad", "Written in a Lady's Prayer Book", Aphra Behn, Bacchae, Charlotte Bronte, Euripides, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tom Jones | Comments closed

Ray Rice, John Wilmot, & Macho Culture

By Robin Bates | Published: September 11, 2014

Ray Rice’s fury at his fiancé, like John Wilmot’s distrust of women, shows his inability to move from the world of men to that of women.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Imperfect Enjoyment", domestic abuse, foot ball, Love a Woman, NFL, Ray Rice | Comments closed

Armstrong, a Knave of the First Rate

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2013

John Wilmot would label Lance Armstrong as a “knave of the first rate” for his doping and bullying.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Satyr against Reason and Mankind", Barry Bonds, doping, Lance Armstrong | Comments closed

Wilmot Understands Our Gun Obsession

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2013

John Wilmot would understand the obsession of America’s gun extremists.

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Obama as a Toni Morrison Character

By Robin Bates | Published: May 2, 2012

Perhaps some of the conservative antipathy to Obama is because he is seen as just taking over when he promised to work for social justice.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Conservatives, politics, Satyr on Reason and Mankind, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison | Comments closed

The Horror of Sex without Love

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2011

Sex without love, the subject of several sex comedies this past summer, was also an issue explored by poets and playwrights in the British Restoration.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Against Constancy, Comedy, Country Wife, Film, Friends with Benefits, Libertine, No Strings Attached, sex, Sex without Love, Sharon Olds, William Wycherley | Comments closed

The Hell of Doing Whatever We Feel Like

By Robin Bates | Published: September 14, 2011

John Wilmot’s poetry stands as a warning against living only for self.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "To the Postboy", David Ferriss, Henry David Thoreau, Self-Help, Seneca, Stoicism, Walden | Comments closed

Less Sexually Liberating for Women

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2009

Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bolt (1776) Yesterday I wrote about Aphra Behn giving us images of women’s sexual liberation in her 1677 play The Rover. But there is a dark undertone that differentiates the play from male-authored Restoration comedies. Behn’s play may not be as polished as the plays of William Wycherley and George Etherege. […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aphra Behn, Fall, rake culture, Rover, sexual liberation, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Aphra Behn, Sexual Revolutionary

By Robin Bates | Published: September 23, 2009

Aphra Behn, by Mary Beale I am having a great deal of fun teaching Aphra Behn’s play The Rover this week. Written in 1677 during the reign of Charles II, it is a rollicking sex comedy that proved to be very popular. A woman writing for the stage was in itself extraordinary. That the play […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Anais Nin, Aphra Behn, Erica Jong, Rover, sexual liberation, To a Lady in a Letter | Comments closed