PURITAN AND RESTORATION ERA

PURITAN AGE

PURITAN AGE

• Also called as The Age of Milton
• Divided into two sub periods:
• Jacobean (James 1st 1603-1625)& Caroline Period (Charles 1st 1625-1649

CHARACTERISTICS

• Writers of Puritan period followed the paths of great Renaissance writers
• Considered as the second greatest renaissance

LITERATURE

• Function of the writers:
• To transform a mysterious God , since he is separated from the world.
• To glorify God.
• To make Him relevant and known.

PURITAN POETRY

• School of Spenser
• Metaphysical School
• Cavalier poetry

THEMES

• Idealism – religious and political
• Pragmaticsm – practicality and purposiveness​

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

• Wordsworth tribute “ Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”
• He is only prominent in the Puritan age
• Complex personality religious and artist. .
• Combined both the spirit of reformation and renaissance
• A great scholar of Hebrew language

DRAMA

• Declined in the hand of Fletcher and Beaumount
• Elizabethan spirit disappeared
• Theaters were banned
• No mental and physical vigour

RESTORATION ERA

RESTORATION(1660)

• Theaters were reopen.
• Coming back of monarchy in England.
• Accession of Charles II to the throne.

RESTORATION DRAMA

• Drama in England after 1660.
• Confined to the upper strata of society.
• Prevailing fashions and etiquettes were foreign and extravagant.
• Most popular form of drama was the Comedy of Manners.
• Heroic Tragedy

DRAMATIST

• Vanbrugh
• Farquhar
• William Congreve

WILLIAM CONGREVE

• Most gifted among all the Restoration dramatist
• Love for Love (1695) and The Way of the World (1700).

OPERA

• New form of Theater
• Kind of performance in which actors sing all or most of the words of a play

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