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THE RESTORATION AND THE AUGUSTAN AGE PAG 114 - Coggle Diagram
THE RESTORATION AND THE AUGUSTAN AGE
PAG 114
IN
1660
, MONARCHY, THE ART AND ANGLICANISM WERE RESTORED UNDER CHARLES II
DURING HIS REIGN, THERE WERE TWO DISASTERS: THE GREAT PLAGUE AND THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON THAT LASTED FIVE DAYS. AFTER THE GREAT FIRE, LONDON WAS REBUILT AND THE GLOBE THEATHER WAS DESTROYED
IN
1685
, HIS BROTHER JAMES II, BECAMES KING
IN
1702
, QUEEN ANNE SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE.
IN
1714
, GEORGE I IS THE FIRST HANOVERIAN KING OF ENGLAND (AFTER STUART)
FROM
1721
TO
1742
, SIR ROBERT WALPOLE BECOMES PRIME MINISTER
RESTORATION THEATRES WERE COVERED BY A ROOF AND THEY WERE ARTIFICIALLY LIT WITH CANDLES.
WE FIND ALSO A DROP CURTAIN AND A PAINTED MOVABLE SCENARY
THE AUDIENCE SAT IN THE DARK IN GALLERIES.
THE PRICES OF PERFOMANCES WERE EXPENSIVE, IN FACT THE AUDIENCE BELONGED TO THE UPPER CLASSES: PEOPLE USED TO GO TO THE THEATRE NOT ONLY TO SEE COMEDIES, BUT ALSO TO MEET OTHER PEOPLE AND TO FEEL FASHIONABLE.
WE FIND BOTH ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
THE THEMES WERE UNIVERSAL IN THE ELIZABETHAN THEATRE, WHILE IN THE RESTORATION WE FIND VICES OF THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASSES
RESTORATION IS THE AGE OF REASON, STABILITY AND BALANCE.
THE RATIONAL TENDECIES WERE IN THE PHILOSOPHERS SUCH AS LOCKE, HOBBES AND IN THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF NEWTON.
THESE NEW SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES ENCOURAGED SELF-CONFIDENCE AND A BELIEF IN THE HUMAN PROGRESS. ALL THESE BIG CHANGES ARE REFLECTED IN LITERATURE.
THEATRES WERE REOPENED BY CHARLES II AFTER 1660 AND WE FIND GREAT CHANGES IN: THE STRUCTURE OF THEATRES, IN THE WAY OF ACTING,IN THE STYLE OF PLAYS AND IN THE AUDIENCE.
THE COMEDY OF MANNERS
MADE FUN OF THE HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED SOCIETY. CHARACTERS WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE TYPES THAN INDIVIDUALS.
A NEW TYPE OF MALE CHARACTER WAS THE
FOP
(DAMERINO), WHO WAS ELEGANT, WITTY, BUT CYNICAL
THE HEROIN WAS WITTY AND MORE INTERESTED IN FASHION THAN IN MORALS.
THE PLOT WAS LESS IMPORTANT THAN ATMOSPHERE, DIALOGUE AND SATIRE
THE THEME OF MARRIAGE WAS CONNECTED TO SEX AND MONEY.
THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYRIGHT OF RESTORATION WAS
WILLIAM CONGREVE
.