The Libertine
“He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it.”
DramaRomance
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
VIBE
A decadent, witty, and ultimately tragic dive into 17th-century London's underbelly. It's a stylish, literary exploration of a poet's self-destruction, fueled by excess and a desperate search for meaning before the inevitable end.
decadentwittytragicmelancholicbawdysteadyperiod dramaliterarygothic undertonesartself-destructionhedonismmortality
dying and deathlondon, englandpoetmonkeyalcoholiclibertinesyphilis17th century
