John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, is a familiar figure. He’s the real-life equivalent of George Etherege’s “Man of Mode” and Aphra Behn’s “Rover” — a licentious anti-hero of the Restoration era. Stephen Jeffreys’s spoofish 1994 satire “The Libertine,” now on the West End, makes an example of the man — namely, that a... Read more »![]()
