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Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump Erase Boards the award-winning biographer Alexander Masters"Sir Robert had composed the most seditious, disgusting, obscene, shameful thing I had ever seen." It's 1737 and England is on edge: someone has tried to assassinate the king at the theatre, and every stageplay is a satire of the royal family. Enter Prime Minister Robert Walpole with a cunning scheme that will grant him power to censor anything that goes on stage by writing the filthiest play ever conceived. All he needs to pull it off is a patsy,