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PURITAN AGE AND RESTORATION OF MONARCHY - Coggle Diagram
PURITAN AGE AND RESTORATION OF MONARCHY
The licterature of the restoration
Poetry
(satire)
John Dryden
(critic and dramatist)
Samuel Butler
(satire exponent)
John Milton
(Paradise lost
John Wilmot
Andrew Marvell
comedy
In Italy
Commedia dell'arte
In Spain
Caderon de la Barca
In France
Le Molière
William Congreve (with the way of the world) was the most important exponent of comedy
It concern the fortunes of a young libertine gentleman,
Mirabell
, who was felt in love with a briliant and witty woman,
Mrs Millamant
Prose writers
Thomas Hobbes
(The leviatan)
John Locke
(Easy concerning human understanding)
Robert Burton
( Anatomy of Melancholy)
Thomas Browne
( Religio Medici)
John Bunyan
( The piligrim's progress)
The
monarchy
was restored in 1660 during the reign of
Charles II
and
James II
System was divided in
two part
Tories
They were supported by the landed gentry and they were in favour of the
Church
and the
King
Whigs
They were supported by the urban middle classes and they were in favour of
Parliament
There was:
Bill of rights
Toleration Act
granted freedom of worship to
protestant dissenters
Glorious Revolution
contract between
monarch
and
parliament
Act of settlement
Exclusion of
Jame's catholic
son from succession
Treaty of Utrecht
Historical and Social background
There was the
English Civil War
between:
Roundheads of Parliament
Royalist
or
Cavaliers