But the playwright's libidinous characters did not please the conservative middle class and one moralist in particular, Jeremy Collier, published a scathing attack on Congreve in 1698.
Among other things, Bertha, the novel's famously libidinous shadow character, has become perhaps literature's most famous symbol of closeted desire, the proverbial madwoman in the attic.
When I suggested Will Ferrell might be a good candidate, he reviewed his character's lewd, libidinous, lascivious behavior, lacking entirely in couth.
While lecturing him about his libidinous ways, Hayek's character mocks the "stupid noises" men make when they orgasm, including "the bear" and "the sports commentator".
Buffini fell foul of this process when adapting Posy Simmonds's graphic novel Tamara Drewe, in which libidinous Nicholas Hardyman is a key character.
What pleasure is to be had from the material — the frank addressing of sexual anxiety and social pressure, a nicely built and frequently undressed cast — is offset by a worldview that casts the lone African-American character as a libidinous go-go boy and finds it clever to provide subtitles for an Asian cheerleader speaking English.
Presumably he was referring to the scripted adventures of his character, the ever-libidinous Captain Kirk.
Borrowing a setting and a citizenry from Fitzgerald, a spirit of self-seriousness from Hemingway and a belief in the subconscious from Freud (one character actually reveals her libidinous desires while sleepwalking), the play is, by turns, ponderous and melodramatic, certainly a curious choice for resurrection.
Its characters are as stoned and libidinous as they are literary, yet Mr. Hanson keeps them moving according to a woozy kind of clockwork.
Given the libidinous girl talk, there's something out of character and out of date in the outrage they express over Kate's affair with a much younger man, a sexy organist.
