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Restoration drama. Heroic tragedy: high milieu, nations depend on actions of superhero, conflict love-duty; loyalty; heroic couplets Neo-classical tragedy : strict structure, 3 unities, violence off stage, bank verse, very often turgid. Spanish intrigue comedy : disguises, mistaken identities.
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Restoration drama Heroic tragedy: high milieu, nations depend on actions of superhero, conflict love-duty; loyalty; heroic couplets Neo-classical tragedy: strict structure, 3 unities, violence off stage, bank verse, very often turgid. Spanish intrigue comedy: disguises, mistaken identities
Restoration drama • Comedy of manners: satirical, witty repartee, wits vs wit-woulds; character stereotpyes: rake, witty heroine, fop, country fool, lustful old woman, senile old husband/suitor, love = sexual lust, not romantic involvement • Tastes changed at the turn of the century.
Restoration women dramatists Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: The Convent of Pleasure Katherine Philips, „the matchless Orinda“
Aphra Behn 1640?-89 In her youthwentto Surinam? Married a Dutchmerchant? WenttoNetherlandsas a spy Wrote 15-19 plays The Rover 1677 Feign‘dCourtesans 1679 The Lucky Chance 1686 The WiddowRanter 1689
Aphra Behn • Love-Letters between a Nobleman to his Sister (1684) • The Fair Jilt (1688) • Oroonoko (1688)