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THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY, COLANTONI VIVIANA …
THE PURITAN AGE AND THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY
HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
The English Civil War(1642) between two factions:
the Roundheads or
Parliamentarians
(led by Oliwer Cromwell)
the
Royalists
or Cavaliers(who supported the king)
LITERARY BACKGROUND
prose
(philosophy, religion and science)
Thomas Browne
(Religio Medici-1642)
John Bunyan
(The Pilgrim's Progress- 1628/88)
Robert Burton
( the Anatomy of Melancholy)
poetry
(religion and philosophy)
John Milton
(Paradise Lost)
Andrew Marvell
In 1660 the monarchy was restored
two-party system
The Tories:
in favour of the Church and the KIng and supported the landed gentry
The Whigs:
in favour of the Parliament and supported by the urban middle classes
Reign of Charles II and James II
Glorious Revolution
(contract between monarch and parliament),
Bill of Rights
(1689),
Tolertion Act
(granted freedom of worship to Protestant dissenters), Act of Settlement (Parliament excluded James's catholic son from the succession and
Treaty of Utrecht
(1713)
LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION
poetry
(satire)
John Dryden
(famous critic and dramatist)
Samuel Butler
(exponent of satire)
John Wilmot
comedy
French comedies of
Molière
, the Italian
"commedia dell'arte"
and the Spanish playwright
Caderon de la Barca
William Congreve
(The Way of the World)
prose
Thomas Hobbes
(The Leviathan-1651)
John Locke
(Essay Concerning Human Understanding-1690)
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Way of the World
It concerns the fortunes of a
young libertine gentleman
called
Mirabell
who is in love with the brilliant and witty
Mrs Millamant
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