LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Butler acts from a higher moral ground than Wallenstein.
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Wallenstein only betrayed the emperor, he did not murder him.
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Butler is no different than Wallenstein.
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Just as Wallenstein’s men begged him to reconsider, Gordon begs Butler to reconsider.
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Butler murders them at the same time the emperor kills Wallenstein.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a play about Wallenstein’s betrayal of the emperor, what is ironic about Butler’s murder of both Count Terzky and Field-Marshal Illo? Butler acts from a higher moral ground than Wallenstein. Wallenstein only betrayed the emperor, he did not murder him.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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."