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THE PURITAN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Andrew Marvell, closer to the metaphysical poets, with To his Coy Mistress and The Garden
  - - - Robert Burton with the Anatomy of Melancholy
      - Sir Thomas Browne, with Religio Medici
      - John Bunyan, with the Pilgrim's Progress
- - - - in this period two political parties were founded
        
        Tories,closer to the king
        
        Whigs, closer to the parliament
      - James ll, with Catholic sympathies, try to replace Anglicanism and undermine the parliament's authority
        
        this brought about the Glorious Revolution
        
        Bill of Rights, (the king could no longer rise taxes whithout parliament's consent)
        
        Toleration act, (freedom og worship for protestant dissenters)
        
        Act of settlement, (exclusion
        of James's Catholic son from the succession)
      - Charles ll's aristocratic French tastes influence his cour, Libertines.
        
        in 1662 was created the Royal Society of London.
  - - - Thomas Hobbes, with the Leviathan
      - John Locke, with the Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    - - John Dryden with Astraea Redux
      - for satira we have:
        
        Samuel Butler, with the satirical poem Hudibras
        
        John Wilmot, with The Second Earl of Rochester
    - - William Congreve, with the Way of the World
      - in this period the comedy has seen a restoration, due to abolition of puritan inspired laws led to a more decadent artistic and cultural climate for upper classes
- - - - that was a new way of thinking characterised by a philosophical and rational spirit.
      - this period was also characterised by the neoclassical restraint and sobriety, which reflected the tastes of the growing middle classes
      - the slave trade
        
        the scottish and irish question
        
        many slaves were trasported across the Atlantic to the Americas where they were sold to plantation owners.
      - when the Queen Anne died (1714), the German Protestant George of Hanover became King George I.
        
        Sir Robert Walpole became the first person to occupy the post of prime minister
        
        when George I died, his son George II became King
        
        in 1745 the second iacobite rebellion was led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was the grandson of James II, crushed at the battle of Culloden in 1746.
        
        The britain's position as a world power was confirmed by its victory in the seven years' war against France.
  - - - important for this period was Samuel Johnson, a poet and lexicographer that wrote A Dictionary of the English Language
      - in this period the birth of the novel was important, several factors led to the rise of novel:
        
        the growth of middle classes
        
        the rise of philosophical rationalism and empieicism
        
        the expansion of the reding public
        
        the decline of drama
        
        the influence of Puritanism and Methodism
        
        an important exponent of the novel was Daniel Defoe
        
        his great work was robinson crusoe
        
        written in the first person, in the form of a diary. we can find different interpretations:
        
        the religion allegory
        
        the economic allegory
        
        the imperialist allegory
        
        the style of the narrative is very matter-of-fact.
    - - the greatest writer of mock heroic poems was Alexander Pope, his famouse work was the rape of the lock.
      - the Theatres Licensing act, intoduce by robert walpole, censored plays to prevent satirical attacks on the governament.
- - - - In 1653 Cromwell, made himself Lord Protector