Samuel Pepy's diary chronicles, for 10 points, what decade which began with the restoration of Charles II to the English throne?
While it wasn't written in this decade, A Midsummer Night's Dream was mocked as "the most insipid ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life" by a writer in this decade. That same writer wrote that he buried several casks of wine and a wheel of Parmesan cheese to preserve his "best things" from a natural disaster during this decade, which was also described by John Evelyn's extensive diary. During this decade Sir W. Batten allegedly said "By God, I think the devil shits Dutchmen" after Michiel de Ruyter sailed up the River (*) Medway to torch more than a dozen of England's largest ships-of-the-line. A piece of personal writing begun on the first day of this decade was written entirely in Shelton shorthand. Thomas Bloodworth took much of the blame for a devastating conflagration during this decade, which destroyed St. Paul's Cathedral. Samuel Pepy's diary chronicles, for 10 points, what decade which began with the restoration of Charles II to the English throne?
While it wasn't written in this decade, A Midsummer Night's Dream was mocked as "the most insipid ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life" by a writer in this decade.
1660s