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RESTORATION
CASSANDRA S. TULLY
FAC. FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS
Chronology
INDEX
1. Historical background of the Renaissance period (1485 – 1660)
2. Literary features in the Renaissance
3. Text Analysis 1 (Elizabethan Period): Poetry: Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso list to hunt”
4. Text Analysis 2 (Elizabethan Period): Poetry: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130
5. Text Analysis 3 (Elizabethan Period): Drama: William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
6. Text Analysis 4 (Jacobean Period): John Donne, “The Sun Rising”
7. Historical background in the Restoration period (1660 – 1789)
8. Literary features in the Restoration
9. Text Analysis 1: Poetry; John Milton “Paradise Lost”
10.Text Analysis 2: Poetry; John Wilmot, “The Disable Debauchee”
11.Literary Features during the Age of Enlightenment (Augustan)
12.Text Analysis 3: Prose; John Locke, “Second Treatise of Civil Government”
13.Text Analysis 4: Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”
14. The rising of the novel
15.Text Analysis 5: Daniel Defoe “Moll Flanders”
16.Text Analysis 6: Samuel Richardson “Pamela”
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• Themes:
• Courtly love
• Divine right of kings
• Obsession
• Style:
• Petrarchan Sonnet
• Allegory
• Pentameter
4. TEXT ANALYSIS 2 (ELIZABETHAN PERIOD):
POETRY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 130
1. 154 sonnets published in 1609 in a quarto
2. 13 copies have survived
3. Themes: love, infidelity, passage of time, jealousy, or
beauty.
4. Dedicated to a “Mr W. H.”
5. Structure: 3 quatrains + 1 couplet
6. Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
7. Iambic pentameter.
8. “The Dark Lady Sequence” sonnets from 127-152
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5. Text Analysis 3 (Elizabethan Period): Drama: William
Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”.
THE JACOBEAN
PERIOD
• King James I of England &
VI of Scotland(1603-25)
• King James Bible (1611)
• Satire
• Metaphysical Poetry
• Prose by Francis Bacon
and Robert Burton
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6. Text Analysis 4 (Jacobean Period): John Donne,
“The Sunne Rising”
Chronology
The primates:
• Elements: fire.
• Heavenly bodies: sun
• Metals: gold.
• Trees: oak.
• Birds: eagle.
• Beast: lion/elephant.
• Men: king.
• One of the 1st republics in
the Modern World.
• Power in Parliament and
a Council of State
• Leaders: Oliver Cromwell
(1653-1658) & Richard
Cromwell (1658-1659)
• Problems in Ireland and
7.2 THE COMMONWEALTH OF Scotland (3rd civil war?)
ENGLAND (1649-1660) -
INTERREGNUM
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• Hanover dynasty
• Ruled from (1714-1727)
• Transition to a modern cabinet
• Robert Walpole (1st Prime Minister)
7.6.2 KING GEORGE II
(1727 – 1760)
Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Son of George I
• Little control of government
• 1745 – last Jacobite rebellion
led by Bonnie Prince Charlie
King George II
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The inspiration: