Art in a Time of Burning

When politics becomes dangerous, writers must be both careful and brave

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If the Restoration dramatists were on Twitter today, their subtweet game would turn the entire platform into a smoking ruin. Compared to these literary rivals and sometime political foes, we are all rank amateurs. They wrote quickly, they wrote smartly, they wrote for politically powerful patrons as…