LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Faith was taken to be of little consequence.
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Faith was accepted without question.
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The claims of faith were balanced against the claims of reason.
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Reason determined that faith was unreasonable.
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No one really thought about it because all serious challenges to faith were subject to a panel of bishops.
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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: -Restoration as a historical period was a time when England was an established colonial power in the world. It was a time of materialism and commerce and the people of the period emphasized money, pleasure and sex. Love and marriage were judged in terms of money.