LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Protectorate.
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Restoration.
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Privy Council.
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Commonwealth.
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Monarchy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, refers to the period from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659 during which England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and associated territories were joined together in the Commonwealth of England, governed by a Lord Protector.
Detailed explanation-2: -The outcome was threefold: the trial of and execution of Charles I (1649); the exile of his son, Charles II (1651); and the replacement of English monarchy with the Commonwealth of England.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1653, after dissolution of the Rump Parliament, the Army Council adopted the Instrument of Government which made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of a united “Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland", inaugurating the period now usually known as the Protectorate.