LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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The emphasis upon emotion as the basis for all decisions
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The emphasis upon reason as the basis for all decisions
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The emphasis upon justice as the basis for all decisions
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The emphasis upon expediency as the basis for all decisions
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The emphasis upon chance as the basis for all decisions
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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: -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."
Detailed explanation-3: -The term she-tragedy, also known as pathetic tragedy refers to a vogue in the late 17th and early 18th centuries for tragic plays focused on the sufferings of a woman, sometimes innocent and virtuous but often a woman who had committed some sort of sexual sin.