LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Married life is boring.
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Marriages often mismatch older men with younger women.
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Marriages are not based upon love or mutual respect but upon financial gain.
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Society encourages husbands to drink and gamble.
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Society encourages wives to have affairs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the major themes of restoration comedy is marriage and the game of love. But if marriage is a mirror of society, the couples in the plays show something very dark and sinister about order.
Detailed explanation-2: -To conclude, the comedy of manners after the Restoration both benefited from the involvement of the court and suffered from its overindulgence and immorality. It depictured a period when theatre was concerned solely with a small upper-class: both as the audience and the subject of the plays on stage.
Detailed explanation-3: -In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following was NOT a major trait of Restoration comedy? An emphasis on highly sexual situations.