| 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. |
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