Janet Todd
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181 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Janet Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not only have we got the widow ranter in there and we've got the heroic bacon, but we've also got the sort of farce of government which goes through all her plays, a mockery of those people who think that they can rule other people and who think they can, you know, the moment they get into power, they simply serve their own interest.
And the moment these people get going in the widow ranter, they make themselves a great big punch bowl.
Is that true?
Yes, yes.
It's very bawdy.
Well, let's say, I mean, other people were bawdy too.
Bawdy sex comedy was the mode, and that's why she wrote it.
Well...
The second play, for example, opens with two people getting out of bed, clearly having had sex and not being married.
She has plays in which people go to bed with each other without realising who they are, but it doesn't really matter in the morning.
They say, well...
That was fun, wasn't it?
People are not punished for their peccadillos.
She has old men who come into supposedly the bridal chamber and open their nightgowns and display themselves to the women.
I mean, this is pretty bawdy stuff.
In fact, she was criticised for quite a lot of it once this kind of sex comedy had gone out of fashion.
Well, I think that the Restoration itself was vilified as you move into the 18th century.
The whole period was seen as corrupt and licentious and the sort of blip on the proper development of things.
The world turned, became more moral.
The Dutch king came in.
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