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Neoclassical Overvie
Neoclassical Lit Overview WGU
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Restoration and Neoclassical | Monarchy Restored, reopened theatres closed due to Puritan censorship, revived drama |
| New forms of literature | Newspapers, Novels, Women's Periodicals, Guidebooks, Pleasure books for kids |
| Romantic Comedy | Appetite and Opportunism, social hypocrisy, sexual power play, Women 'besting'their pursuers. Attacked by Puritans for morals. |
| Tragedy | First time middle class plays a major role in theatre. Story lines about their trials and tribulations. |
| Satire | Made it's way from the written word, to conversation. |
| Drama Themes | Military conquest, masquerade and self delusion, tribulations of the middle class. |
| Most popular form of poetry | Heroic couplet. Complete thought in two lines of iambic pentameter. |
| "Polite" | Holding one's tongue, restraint. |
| Levels of Middle Class | Did not have to be born into money. Could 'buy' your way into becoming a gentleman by investing. Capitalism |
| New theatre | Mixed the old and the new to make it better. Women on stage. Theatre located and accessible to everyone and frequented by the middle class. |
| Mock Epic | High style, low subject matter. A satire or parody mocking classical sterotypes of heroes. |
| Plots | Driven by revelation and concealment. Wore masks to add to the drama. |
| Refinement | Buying the best in clothes, food, earthly goods to advance yourself in class. |
| Comedy of Manners | A form of high comedy, usually about love, that relies on intellectual, not physical comedy. Usually involving high society. |
| Didactic Poetry | A literary work that overtly attempts to instruct or teach a lesson. |
| Neoclassism | Writers that appeal to reason instead of emotion and emphasize order, balance, harmony, and realsim (not romanticism). |
| Neoclassic Period | 1660-1785 |
| Restoration Age | 1660-1700 After the puritan ban was lifted on the theatres. |
Created by:
LFalone
on 2009-11-05