Caroline to Romantic Flashcards
The Restoration:
1660–1700
open the first Theatre Royal in Dublin in
1662 in Smock Alley.
The Rover
Aphra Behn (1677)
The Man of Mode
George Etherege (1676)
Andrew Marvell described who as “the best English satirist”
George Etherege
Willmore in The Rover and the witty, poetry-reciting rake Dorimant in George Etherege’s The Man of Mode (1676) are seen as a satire on whom?
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind written by
John Wilmot
Age of Dryden
Restoration Period
W. H. Auden referred to whom as “the master of the middle style”
John Dryden
Mc Feknoe was written in
MacFlecknoe (1682).
Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent to whom in 1670. The post then became a regular British institution.
John Dryden
Diarists _________ and ___________depicted everyday London life and the cultural scene of the times.
John Evelyn (1620–1706) and Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
Great Plague of London
1644–5
The Great Fire of London
(1666).
The Pilgrim’s Progress Part I and part 2 published when
1678, 1684
The Augustan age:
1701–1750
The Augustan Age description
Writers at this time “greatly admired their Roman counterparts, imitated their works and frequently drew parallels between” contemporary world and the age of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 AD – BC 14)
Some of the major writers in the augustan period
John Dryden, the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift , William Congreve, Joseph Addison (1672–1719), Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson.
The Adventures of Roderick Random (Augustan age)
1748, Tobias Smolett
The Spectator (Augustan age)
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’
Roxana and Moll Flanders (Augustan Age)
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders
(1719), (1722)
Samuel Richardson, author of the epistolary novels
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48)
Henry Fielding wrote
Joseph Andrews (1742) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749).
Jonathan Swift (aug age) wrote
Gulliver’s travels, A modest proposal
The English pictorial satirist and editorial cartoonist
William Hogarth
William Congreve wrote-(aug age)
The way of the world (1700)
George Farquhar wrote -(aug age)
The Recruiting Officer (1706)
The age of Augustan drama was brought to an end by the censorship established by the _____________ which was modified as ____________ in the year ___________ and later in the year 1968 called that ______________
The age of Augustan drama was brought to an end by the censorship established by the Licensing Act of 1737 which was modified as Theatres Act in the year 1843 and later in the year 1968 called that Theatres Act 1968
The most outstanding poet of the Augustan age is Alexander Pope (1688–1744), whose major works include
The Rape of the Lock (1712; enlarged in 1714); a translation of the Iliad (1715–20); a translation of the Odyssey (1725–26); The Dunciad (1728; 1743)
____________produced his melancholy The Seasons (1728–30) and _______________________ wrote his poem Night-Thoughts (1742).
James Thomson (1700–48), Edward Young (1681–1765)
The second half of the 18th century is sometimes called the
“Age of Johnson”
After _________ of work, Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in
nine years, 1755
This period of the 18th century saw the emergence of three major Irish authors
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), and Laurence Sterne (1713–68)
The Vicar of Wakefield was written by whom and when
(1766) Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer was written by and when
1770, Oliver Goldsmith; she stoops(1773)
Sheridan’s first play
The Rivals 1775
3 sentimental novels
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759 – 67).
Name a novel of Manners and this was written by whom
Evelina by Francis Burney
The graveyard poets were
The poets include; Thomas Gray William Cowper Christopher Smart Thomas Chatterton Robert Blair and Edward Young
When was the Castle of Otranto written and by whom
Horace Walpole’s 1764
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Anne Radcliff 1794
The Monk was written by
(1796), by Matthew Lewis
Scottish poet was a pioneer of the Romantic movement
Robert Burns (1759–1796)
