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    Restoration Age

    (1660_1700)
    By
    Group A
    • Anwaar ul Hassan
    • Jaon Ali
    • Lala Rukh
    • Ayesha Khalid
    • Zainab Alvi
    • Sadia Akram
    INTRO AND HISTORY OF RESTORATION AGE
    By
    Anwaar ul Hassan
    Introduction :
    • Time span (1660_1700)
    • Interregnum period (1649_1660)
    • Age of Dryden
    • Dryden as the representative of that society
    • Monarchy was restored
    • Charles II the king
    HISTORY :
    • During Caroline Age in 1649 King Charles I was beheaded due to English Civil wars
    • Interregnum period or Commonwealth period (1649_1660)
    • No king in 11 years , ruled by Oliver Cromwell and puritans
    • Restoration period (1660_1700) when Charles II came back to England from his exile
    in France
    • In 1649,England was declared as commonwealth
    • From 1649 to 1651 Charles II ruled over Scotland
    • In 1651, Scotland was declared as commonwealth
    • From 1651_1660 Charles II fled to France and in 1660 he became the king of
    England , Ireland and Scotland
    • Charles II , James II , Mary II and William of Orange were the rulers in this age
    CHARACTERISTICS OF RESTORATION AGE
    BY
    JAON ALI
    • Restoration of Monarchy
    • Reopening of Theaters
    • Influence of French Literature
    • Realism
    • Formalism
    • Heroic couplet
    • Satire
    • Comedy of Manners
    RESTORATION DRAMA
    BY
    Lala Rukh
    • INTRODUCTION :
    1. Genre of English plays
    2. Contributions of Charles II’s restoration
    • MAJOR TYPES OF DRAMAS
    1. Heroic tragedy
    2. Comedy of Manners
    • HEROIC TRAGEDY
    1. Popular literary form
    2. Morals of its development
    3. Aristocratic growth
    • MAJOR DRAMATISTS
    1. Sir William Davenant
    2. John Dryden
    3. Thomas Outway
    4. Nicholas Row

    • CONCLUSION
    • COMEDY OF MANNERS
    BY
    AYESHA KHALID
    • HISTORY
    • Menander
    • Horace
    • 1st Play in England
    • Moliere
    • Oliver Goldsmith , Richard Sheridan
    • George Etherge
    • William Wycherley , William Congreve
    • Main location
    • FEATURES
    • Favourite subject
    • Manners of upper class society
    • Hypocrisy,scam and jealousy of people
    • less physical actions
    • Anti-Puritan comedies
    • Ben Johnson
    RESTORATION POETRY
    BY
    ZAINAB ALVI
    • CHARACTERISTICS
    • Satirical
    • Realism
    • Use of Heroic couplet
    • Modernism
    • MAJOR POET OF THIS AGE
    • JOHN DRYDEN
    • His poetry is divided into 3 groups
    1. POLITICAL SATIRE
    2. DOCTRINICAL POEMS
    3. THE FABLES
    RESTORATION PROSE
    BY
    SADIA AKRAM
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. FEATURES
    • TRANSITION
    • CRITICAL INTEREST
    • DE-LATINISATON
    3. FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGE
    • THE ROYAL SOCIETY
    • SERMONS
    • MODERNISATION By POPULARISATION OF LITERATURE
    • RESTORATION PROSE WRITERS
    • JOHN DRYDEN
    • JOHN BUNYAN
    • SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
    • CONCLUSION

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