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    The document summarizes key aspects of literature and theatre during the English Restoration period from 1660-1688. Charles II reopened theatres after they had been closed for 18 years by Puritans. Comedy plays satirized society and featured situational humor. Playwrights like William Congreve flourished during this time with support from Charles II. Poetry also thrived during this period, with John Dryden emerging as the most prominent writer who helped establish the classical school of poetry in England.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of literature and theatre during the English Restoration period from 1660-1688. Charles II reopened theatres after they had been closed for 18 years by Puritans. Comedy plays satirized society and featured situational humor. Playwrights like William Congreve flourished during this time with support from Charles II. Poetry also thrived during this period, with John Dryden emerging as the most prominent writer who helped establish the classical school of poetry in England.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of literature and theatre during the English Restoration period from 1660-1688. Charles II reopened theatres after they had been closed for 18 years by Puritans. Comedy plays satirized society and featured situational humor. Playwrights like William Congreve flourished during this time with support from Charles II. Poetry also thrived during this period, with John Dryden emerging as the most prominent writer who helped establish the classical school of poetry in England.

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    Restoration age

    1660-1688
    Charles II Restoration (Return to a former position)
    • The crowning of Charles II
    • Restoring of the traditional English monarchical form of government.
    • Charles I believed that kings are proposed by God to rule.
    Philosophical Context
    • Restoration period roughly coincides with the beginning of
    the Enlightenment, which lasted until the end of the 18th
    century.
    The Theatre
    • As a result of the influence of religious and political leaders who
    believed it to be sinful, theatres had been closed for 18 years by
    Puritans
    • Charles II reopened theatres.
    • Playwrights appreciated this act of Charles
    • Revival in English theatre.
    • Charles II, was a big admirer of drama he encouraged the theatre's
    presence.
    Poetry
    • Poetry flourished.
    • John Dryden. The most important writer of the
    age
    • Spiritual literature. John Milton Paradise Lost
    was published during this age.
    Drama
    • Comedies of Manners, satirized the behaviours of society
    before and during the restoration period.
    • Comedic plays relied on situational humour:
    • disguises,
    • mistaken identity, and misunderstandings which stems from
    nonsense and leads to confusion.
    • Situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.
    • prose instead of the traditional heroic couplets.
    Drama
    • Comedies became social commentaries.
    • Not a mirror of society, but rather exaggerations of society
    • Upper class audience.
    • Another interesting theme that is a sign of the times is the
    reversal of Class
    • Wealth
    • Property
    • Gender roles
    Drama
    • The most gifted among all the Restoration
    dramatist was William Congreve (1670-1720)
    who wrote all his best plays when he was thirty
    years of age. His well-known comedies are Love
    for Love (1695) and The Way of the
    World (1700).
    Success
    • Support of The King
    • Sanctioned loans to establish theatres
    • loaned productions.
    • Funded extravagant.
    • Restoration audiences enjoyed
    • New technologies changed how the plays were put on
    and how the audience watched them.
    Writers and poets of the age
    • Age of Dryden (most prominent figure of the age)
    • There was a reaction against everything that the
    puritans held sacred.
    • The King rejected old ideals and demanded that English
    poetry and drama should follow the style to which they
    had become accustomed in France.
    • Poets and writers imitated French writers especially
    their vices.
    Writers and poets of the age
    • For quite sometime, there was no significant work  in
    poetry, drama and prose produced which could compare
    satisfactorily with the great achievements of the
    Elizabethans, of Milton, and even of minor writers of
    the Puritan age. 
    • Realism and Preciseness.
    • More emphasis on vices than virtues in the beginning.
    • Ultimately, preciseness became the chief characteristic.
    Restoration Poetry
    • Satirical
    • Realistic
    • Written in heroic couplet
    • Dryden wrote in a clear and forceful style
    • Laid the foundation of the classical school of
    poetry.

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