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Restoration & 18 th Century Drama 1660-1800

Restoration & 18 th Century Drama 1660-1800. Historical Background. 1642: Puritans take over the country, and all theatres are closed. 1642-1660: Interregnum Period 1660: Restoration of the Monarchy. Restoration Drama.

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Restoration & 18 th Century Drama 1660-1800

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  1. Restoration & 18th Century Drama1660-1800

  2. Historical Background • 1642: Puritans take over the country, • and all theatres are closed. • 1642-1660: Interregnum Period • 1660: Restoration of the Monarchy

  3. Restoration Drama • Unique fusion between Elizabethan stage conventions and Italian and French styles • French culture was especially influential in Restoration society • Charles II had spent his exile in France • James II had ties with Catholic Europe • Serious Drama • Heroic Tragedy • Dealt with extraordinary characters who undertook extraordinary deeds and had themes of love and honor • Restoration Tragedy • Adherence to Neoclassic Rules • Popular to rework Shakespeare into Neoclassical mold • Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending • King Lear with Lear restored to his throne and Cordelia does not die

  4. .Types of Restoration Drama The drama of this period can be broken into two categories, comedies and tragedies. Restoration tragedy is classified as heroic tragedy. Heroic tragedy is very extraordinary and usually encompasses some extremely good deed done by a very willful, admirable character. Restoration tragedy refers to neoclassical rules making it very imitative. Usually these tragedies are reworkings of Shakespearean plays.

  5. What Type of Drama did John Dryden write • John Dryden (1631-1700), poet, critic, translator ,and playwright • Remembered for his Neo-Classic tragedies, and Heroic Drama • His most important play ,All For Love (1677)

  6. Coming from an age of Puritanism, what do the people want? Comedy of Manners: reveal the foibles of the society that watched them. Society enjoyed laughing at itself. Restoration Comedies: Less interested in reforming society than in capitalizing on its faults. Type of Drama…

  7. There are three types of comedies that were popular during the Restoration. These three types are: Humour, Manners, and Intrigue. 1.Comedies of Humour were made popular by the Renaissance playwright and poet Ben Jonson earlier in the century. These plays centralized around a specific character who had an overshadowing trait. 2.Comedy of Manners were the most popular form of Restoration Drama. These plays would typically mock the upper-class and would usually include vulgar and sexually suggestive language. 3.The third and final form of comedy during the Restoration is the comedy of Intrigue. This type of comedy has a somewhat complicated plot, and usually evolves around romance and adventure

  8. Comedyof Manners • Focuses on the fashions and foibles of the upper class – gossip, scandals , immoral and indecent references in dialogue and subject • Poke fun at the social conventions and norms of the time and satirize the manners of the upper class • Language consists of witty exchanges and sexually suggestive references • Influenced by Molière • Characters are stock types – their names usually describe their distinctive personality traits • William Wycherley • Most famous play: The Country Wife (1675) • William Congreve • Best example of a Restoration Comedy of Manners :The Way of the World (1700)

  9. Women Playwrights • AphraBehn • First woman English playwright Plays followed the trend of being vulgar and scandalous • (1640-1689) was one of the first and most industrious of English women playwrights. She was the author of eighteen plays, most of them highly successful and fully as indecent as any by Wycherley or Vanbrugh. • Plays include: The Forced Marriage (1677), The Rover (1677), • women writers who worked to increase the involvement of female playwrights in English theatre, building on AphraBehn’s worksuch as Susannah Centlivre Mrs. Manley

  10. William Wycherley William Congreve George Farquhar Richard Brinsley Sheridan Oliver Goldsmith Some of the major players…

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