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THE PURITAN AGE, THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY - Coggle Diagram
THE PURITAN AGE
Literature in the puritan age
PROSE
Thomas Brown: his work is "Religio Medici"
John Bunyan: his most important work is " The Pilgrim's Progress"
Robert Burton: most important work is "The anatomy of Melancholy"
POETRY
Andrew Marvell: his works are "To his coy Mistress" and "the Garden"
John Milton: his most important poem is "Paradise Lost"
The English Civil War (1642)
Between the Royalist (supported by King) and the Roundheads (or Parlamentarias) led by Oliver Cromwell
The Parlamentarians were Puritan and they were supported by the new gentry along with small landwners and artisans
conservative group
radical group
THE PURITAN CULTURE
: Cultural movement that arised with in the Church of England. They were the exstremist fringe of the Protestants
THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY
The Reign of Charles II
Tories: they were in favour of the Church and the King and they were supported by the landed
Wighs: they supported the Parliament and were mainly supported by the urban middle classes
James II's Reign (James ll had more Catholic sympaties)
THE BILL OF RIGHT 1689
TOLERATION ACT 1689
THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
TREATY OF UTRECHT 1713
Literature of the Restoration
Restoration poets
John Dryden: his most important poetic works are "Astraea Redux", " Annus Mirabilis", " Absalom and Achitophel", "the Medall" and "MacFlecknoe"
Samuel Butler: his most important is "Hudibras"
John Wilmot: his most important work is "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind shows
Restoration comedy
French comedies of Molière, the italian "commedia dell'arte" and the Spanish playwright Calderòn de la Barca
William Congreve
Restoration prose
Thomas Hobbes: his great work is the "Leviathan"
John Locke: his work is "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Literary production:
TRAGEDY
: "The Mourning Bride"
His greatest work is "The Way of the World"
COMEDY
: are "The Old Bachelor", "The Double Dealer" and "Love for Love"