GROUP MEMBERS:-MARINA QUDOOS (GROUP LEADER)HAKIMA BATOOLFATIMA QURBANIANUM SHERAZI

RESTORATION DRAMA

ANUM SHERAZIAN INTRODUCTION TO RESTORATION

CONTENTSRestorationCharles 1

Oliver CromwellArrival of Charles 2

Restoration of Charles 2Restoration theater

Some important worksSources used

RESTORATION:-

The return of constitution monarchy to Great Britain in 1600

under Charles 2. The period between the crowning of Charles 2

and the revolution of 1688

CHARLES 1

(19-11-1600 TO 30-1-1688)

He was born in Scotland. He was

the second surviv ing son of

James 1 of Scotland. In March 1625

Charles 1 became the king.

In 1629 Charles dismissed parliament, determined to rule about alone, but his controversial methods or moot behavior of rising income and divisive religious policies caused an uprising amongst the Puritans.

OLIVER CROMWELL (25-4-1599 TO 3-9-1658)

Oliver Cromwell was an English military and polit ical leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

In 1642 the puritan revolution began led by Oliver Cromwell which resulted in Charles being overthrown and beheaded .. Cromwell then took the leadership of the county being known as the Lord Protectorate. This was only time in the history that Britain was not run by a monarch.

Cromwell outlawed the theater because of its connections with the monarchy and a/c to his puritan values was immoral.

Charles II (29-5-1630 TO6-2-1685)

He was the son of King Charles 1. After the

death of Cromwell in 1668 the protectorate began to collapse and 1660 parliament voted to restore Charles 2 to

the throne .

ARRIVAL OF CHARLES 2

As Charles 2 was living in France before the

monarchy so he brought some of the French culture

and literature with him.Charles 2 was a man of

progressive thoughts. His French upbringing

generates a rational mind in him. English started

imitating the French culture. Royal society was established to encourage.

RESTORATION THEATER

Charles 2 reopened the theaters. Restoration Theater was only for the upper class. The plays and dramas show only the l ife and activit ies of the royal people. The vulgar activit ies were included in the dramas. Instead the upper class show any shame they enjoyed these plays a lot.

Women actresses were first introduced in the theater, but the dramas or plays were so much bawdy and vulgar that it was immoral to the English literature

Nell Gwynn was the f irst female actress and the mistress of Charles 2.

He was the most famous writer of the restoration period.

JOHN DRYDENAugust 9, 1631 TO

May 12, 1700

IMPORTANT WORKS:-Many new literary devices and

techniques like novel, biography, travelogue history

and short story was developed or practiced in this period.

Pamphlets….. Both political and literary over crowded in the

literary horizon of restoration.Poets like Dryden produced

some immortal poems indeed.

SOURCES USEDWEBSITES:-Wikipedia

Slide shareEnglish literature

education blog BOOKS:-

A history of English literature by T. Singh

A short history of English literature by

B.R Malik .