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Lycidas (1673) p.54 a sorrowful pastoral on the death by drowning of Edward King, a student with Milton at Cambridge
Restoration Drama
Charles II became King in 1660 (p.63) Theatres opened again, new dramatists appeared. Tragic drama, mainly heroic plays 1. Men are brave, and the women wonderfully beautiful 2. shouting and nonsense 3. written in heroic couplets
Restoration Drama
John Dryden (p.63) The Couquest of Granada (1670) Auregzebe (1676) 1. a struggle for empire in India 2. rhymed play and finest speeches Also wrote comedy, in blank verse 1. Marriage-a-la-Mode (1672) 2. All for Love (or The World Well Lost, 1678)
Restoration Drama
William Congreve (p.65) 1.The Way of the World (1700) 2. A comedy, the drawing of women character is good.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1. The School for Scandal (1777) 2. introduces three characters whose love of scandal is so great that they strike a character dead at every word 3. contains a famous drinking song (p.66)
Restoration Drama
John Bunyan (p.67) p.67 The Pilgrims Progress 1. allegory of Christians Journey to heaven through the evils (all types of people) of the world 2. influenced by his reading of the Bible, preaching Christian truths in the forms of allegory 3. not a novel but possesses some of the new form: lively dialogue and characterization
Restoration Prose
John Dryden 1. Essay on Dramatic Poesie (1668) p.67 2.compared English and French Drama, argued that the limitations which the French set themselves by keeping to the unities of time and place 3. defended the use of rhyme in drama, praised Shakespeare 4. important criticism, better critic led the way to a clear reasonable and balanced way of writing English
Restoration Prose
John Locke (p.67) 1. clear, earnest and without ornament 2. Essay on the Human Understanding (1690) 3. gave a new direction to thought not only in England but in other countries of Europe New Opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.