LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Uneducated farmhand
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Rich landowner or businessman
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Suave seducer
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Naive husband
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Overweight father
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Detailed explanation-1: -These three types are: Humour, Manners, and Intrigue. Comedies of Humour were made popular by the Renaissance playwright and poet Ben Jonson earlier in the century. These plays centralized around a specific character who had an overshadowing trait. Comedy of Manners were the most popular form of Restoration Drama.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eighteenth Century Drama is primarily a collection of digitized play manuscripts; it includes nearly every play submitted for license in the United Kingdom from 1737-1824. The original play manuscripts are in the Larpent Collection at the Huntington Library.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of Restoration drama The dramatist’s personal perspective on life vanished. Drama has, in some ways, become arrogant, fake, and overly staged. The primary source of the dramatists’ dramatic ideas became court life, with all its mannerisms, immorality, and illusory glory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Main characteristics of Restoration Comedy of Manners include a flamboyant display of witty, blunt sexual dialogue, boudoir intrigues, sensual innuendos and rakish behaviour. The tone of the plays is cynical and satirical, while the language and actions are sexually explicit.