LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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These dramas explored the then-new science of psychiatry.
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The characters reflected the political turbulence of the times.
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The characters in these dramas reflected the new emphasis of emotion over reason.
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Through their portrayal of these characters as emotionally unstable, the playwrights affirmed the necessity of rationalism.
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Audiences had grown tired of predictable plays.
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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.