Restoration Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
MoreRestoration Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
IntroductionTop 10 List
Million Dollar Questions
Characteristics
Comedy of Manners
William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675)
Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677)
Satire
John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (1682)
Heroic Couplet
John Dryden, "Astraea Redux: A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second" (1660)
Social Life
William Congreve, Love for Love (1695)
Politics
John Dryden, "To His Sacred Majesty: A Panegyrick on His Coronation" (1661)
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (1689)
Faith
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
Restoration of Monarchy
Rejection of Puritanism
Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663-1678)
Reopening of Theaters
French Literature
William Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer (1676)
Top Authors
John Dryden
William Congreve
John Milton
Aphra Behn
William Wycherley
Timeline
Texts
Best of the Web
Module Quizzes
But is it Restoration Literature? Identifying Quotes
Restoration Literature Obsessions: Themes and Symbols
The Who's and What's of Restoration Literature
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