Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… practice of duelling was not accepted by the Puritans, and Cromwell issued a proclamation against it in 1654. Under the Restoration, the return of the aristocracy made duelling more frequent. Duels endured in England in the eighteenth … it.' (act IV, sc. III, 138) In long eighteenth-century literature more generally, duels are ubiquitous. Kiernan quotes Restoration comedies such as The Comical Revenge where Sir Nicholas Cully, who owes his knighthood to Cromwell and is in …
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