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ROBINSON CRUSOE, WILLIAM CONGREVE: best playwright of his age - Coggle…
ROBINSON CRUSOE
RESTORATION PROSE
PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS: emerged prose for developing the cultural and political debate of the age ⇒ philosophers
Isaac Newton: explained the forces that make the solar system work and formulated the "Law of Universal Gravitation"
Hobbes: Leviathan, idea that men were at war against eachother, so society established a social contract to prevent men from killing one another
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RELIGIOUS PROSE
John Bunyan: "The Pilgrim's Progress" is an allegorical representaion of the spiritual voyage of man's soul through vices and virtues
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FICTIONAL PROSE: Oroonoko or The Royal Slave, expression of anti-colonialism and abolitionist themes
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NEW LIFE OF DRAMA: thanks to Restoration, was inaugurated a new chapter of freedom ⇒ REOPENING OF THEATRES
- theatre now is a form of art appreciated by a limited group of people (upple class)
- roofed building
- mise-en-scine more refined,
intimate so realistic
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new genre: COMEDIES OF MANNERS, because they centred around the manners (modes and morals) of the upper class
(more refined)
THEMES: love and marriage > plot: actions of a couple of lovers who struggle and finally get married
WIT, use language in a tricky and clever way to hide truth, quickness of thought
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