…spectacles the Elizabethan and Jacobean masks for example were fantastically elaborate and there's a record of one mask put on for Charles I by the Inns of Court which cost over twenty thousand pounds for a single night's entertainment This is an…

…at no other time has had in England. And we have assumed, in consequence, that the whole society of the time of Charles II, during which these comedies by Wycherley and Etheridge and and Dryden and Shadwell and Rochester were written, have assumed that…

…then when we examine the historical facts, we find something very surprising. To begin with, we find that during the reign of Charles II, there were only two theaters in London, as opposed to six or seven theaters in the much smaller London of Elizabeth,…

…themselves out, to cancel out over the great periods and a general sort of line may perhaps be projected into the future. Sir Charles Darwin's view is simply this, that man is a wild species. He has not been domesticated. A domestic animal is an animal…

…which does the domestication itself remains a wild species there is nothing which domesticates it and for this reason in Sir Charles Darwin's opinion, man will never transcend the limitations imposed upon a wild species. His view is that, like all other…

…these techniques and their development in Holland and later in England, foundation of the Bank of England in the reign of Charles II is an important turning point we then get important developments in the sphere of government organisation the organisation of…

…in the most advanced Western countries it was necessary to destroy the symbols of the old order. England began it by executing Charles I in 1649. The cutting off of the king's head destroyed this whole sort of symbolic hierarchy of values which had…