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Drama 17th and 18th centuries: Heroic Drama, Restoration Comedy, Sentimental Drama Early Drama by Women: 1623-1673 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (16plays) 1632-1664 Katherine Philips (“Orinda”): Pompey (1663) and Horace Frances Boothby, Marcella 1640-1689 Aphra Behn: The Rover (1677); The City Heiress (1682); The Lucky Chance (1686) 1666-1709 Mary Pix (“Ariadne”): 1695 She Ventures and She Wins; ?1697: The Unnatural Mother [attributed to her] 1669-1723 Susanah Centlivre: The Perjured Husband (1700); A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) 1679-1749 Catharine Trotter: Love at loss (1700) Male Contemporaries: 1608-1674 John Milton Paradise Lost (1663?) 1628-1688 John Bunyan Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) The Pilgrim´s Progress (1676) 1631-1700 John Dryden The Indian Queen (1664); Marriage á la Mode (1672); Troilus and Cressida (1679); All for Love (1578); Amphitryon (1690) ?1634-91 Sir George Etherege The Man of Mode (1676) 1641-1715 William Wycherley The Country Wife (1675), The Plain-Dealer (1676) 1652-1685 Thomas Otway: Venice Preserv´d (1682) 1664-1726 Sir John Vanbrug The Relapse (1696); The Provok´d Wife (1697) 1670-1729 William Congreve The Double Dealer (1694); Love for Love (1695); The Way of the World (1700) 1672-1729 Richard Steele The Tender Husband (1705); The Conscious Lovers (1722) 1672-1719 Joseph Addison Cato (1713) 1674-1718 Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent (1703); Jane Shore (1714); Lady Jane Grey (1715) 1677?-1707 George Farquhar The Twin Rivals (1702); The Recruiting Officer (1706); The Beaux´ Strategem (1707) 1685-1732 John Gay The Beggar´s Opera (1728) [Macheath; Peachum; Lockit] 1 1693-1739 George Lillo The London Merchant (1731) [George Barnwell; Millwood] 1700-1748 James Thomson Sophonisba (1730); Tancred and Sigismunda (1745); Coriolanus (1749) 1707-1754 Henry Fielding Tom Thumb (The Tragedy of Tragedies) (1730) ?1730-1774 Oliver Goldsmith The Good Natured Man (1768); She Stoops to Conquer (1773) 1731-1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals (1775); The School for Scandal (1777); The Critic (1779) Italian Tragedy Heroic Drama Restoration Comedy/Comedy of Manners wits:fops gay couple Sentimental Comedy poetic justice Sentimental Tragedy/Domestic Tragedy Laughing Comedy Satire; Farce; Gothic Drama; Metadrama 2.

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John Dryden and the Late 17Th Century Dramatic Experience Lecture 16 (C) by Asher Ashkar Gohar 1 Credit Hr
JOHN DRYDEN AND THE LATE 17TH CENTURY DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE LECTURE 16 (C) BY ASHER ASHKAR GOHAR 1 CREDIT HR. JOHN DRYDEN (1631 – 1700) HIS LIFE: John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the “Age of Dryden”. The son of a country gentleman, Dryden grew up in the country. When he was 11 years old the Civil War broke out. Both his father’s and mother’s families sided with Parliament against the king, but Dryden’s own sympathies in his youth are unknown. About 1644 Dryden was admitted to Westminster School, where he received a predominantly classical education under the celebrated Richard Busby. His easy and lifelong familiarity with classical literature begun at Westminster later resulted in idiomatic English translations. In 1650 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1654. What Dryden did between leaving the university in 1654 and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 is not known with certainty. In 1659 his contribution to a memorial volume for Oliver Cromwell marked him as a poet worth watching. His “heroic stanzas” were mature, considered, sonorous, and sprinkled with those classical and scientific allusions that characterized his later verse. This kind of public poetry was always one of the things Dryden did best. On December 1, 1663, he married Elizabeth Howard, the youngest daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Berkshire.
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