LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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The servant and the spouse
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The matron and the maven
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The supporter and the scolder
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The virgin and the whore
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The courtesan and the princess
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Detailed explanation-1: -Political satire is the use of humor and exaggeration to criticize or ridicule aspects of government and public affairs. The effect of this kind of satire rests on the use of allusion, a reference to a well-known person, event, or thing, and caricature, which exaggerates some feature of what is being referenced.
Detailed explanation-2: -The playwrights who practised the comedies of manners in the Restoration age were William Congreve, George Etherege, William Wycherley, Thomas Shadwell, Sir John Vanbrugh, and Fraquhar. Studying the social pressures on love and marriage with wit and subtlety Congreve shows himself the master of restoration comedy.
Detailed explanation-3: -3)The Rover is a classic Restoration comedy, dealing with the romantic intrigues of a group of English gentlemen on holiday in Naples over carnival weekend and hence because of its light hearted plot it serves as a restoration comedy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did playwrights such as John Dryden and Nicholas Rowe write about subjects from the distant past? Because the Puritans were on the lookout for any reason to shut down the theaters again, artists looked to the past because it was “safe."