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ARTICLES RELATED TO English Restoration | | | |  English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - English Restoration - End of the ProtectorateThe Protectorate, which had preceded the Restoration and followed the Commonwealth, might have continued a little longer if Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard Cromwell, who was made Lord Protector on his father's death, had been capable of carrying on his father's policies. Richard Cromwell's main weakness was that he did not have the confidence of the army. After seven months the Army removed him and in May 6, 1659 it reinstalled the Rump Parliament. Charles Fleetwood was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety and of the Council of State ...
See also:English Restoration, English Restoration - End of the Protectorate, English Restoration - Restoration of Charles II, English Restoration - Opposition to the Restoration, English Restoration - Restoration Britain, English Restoration - The republican new nobility, English Restoration - Notes Read more here: » English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - English Restoration - End of the Protectorate |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background The unity of the Three Kingdoms under one monarch was quite a recent development. Since 1541, monarchs of England had also ruled the Kingdom of Ireland through a separate Irish Parliament, while Wales was made part of the Kingdom of England. With the Reformation, King Henry VIII made himself head of the Protestant Church of England and Roman Catholicism was outlawed in England and Wales, but remained the religion of most people in Ireland.
In the separate Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by Joh ...
See also:Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Religious Confrontation in Scotland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - England, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Ireland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - War Breaks Out, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Main events, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath Read more here: » Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Comedies Variety and dizzying fashion changes are typical of Restoration comedy. Even though the "Restoration drama" unit taught to college students is likely to be telescoped in a way that makes the plays all sound contemporary, scholars now have a strong sense of the rapid evolution of English drama over these forty years and of its social and political causes. The influence of theatre company competitio ...
See also:Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Theatre companies, Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82, Restoration comedy - United Company 1682–95, Restoration comedy - War of the theatres 1695–1700, Restoration comedy - Actors, Restoration comedy - First actresses, Restoration comedy - First celebrity actors, Restoration comedy - Comedies, Restoration comedy - Aristocratic comedy 1660–80, Restoration comedy - Decline of comedy 1678–90, Restoration comedy - Comedy renaissance 1690–1700, Restoration comedy - End of comedy, Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Stage history, Restoration comedy - Literary criticism, Restoration comedy - List of notable Restoration comedies Read more here: » Restoration comedy: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Comedies |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Comedies Variety and dizzying fashion changes are typical of Restoration comedy. Even though the "Restoration drama" unit taught to college students is likely to be telescoped in a way that makes the plays all sound contemporary, scholars now have a strong sense of the rapid evolvement of English drama over these forty years and of its social and political causes. The influence of theatre company competitio ...
See also:Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Theatre companies, Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82, Restoration comedy - United Company 1682–95, Restoration comedy - War of the theatres 1695–1700, Restoration comedy - Actors, Restoration comedy - First actresses, Restoration comedy - First celebrity actors, Restoration comedy - Comedies, Restoration comedy - Aristocratic comedy 1660–80, Restoration comedy - Decline of comedy 1678–90, Restoration comedy - Comedy renaissance 1690–1700, Restoration comedy - End of comedy, Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Stage history, Restoration comedy - Literary criticism, Restoration comedy - List of notable Restoration comedies Read more here: » Restoration comedy: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Comedies |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Actors
Restoration comedy - First actresses.
Restoration comedy was strongly influenced by the introduction of the first professional actresses. Before the closing of the theatres, all female roles had been played by boys, and the predominantly male audiences of the 1660s and 1670s were both curious, censorious, and delighted at the novelty of seeing real women engage in risqué repartee and take part in physical seduction scenes. Samuel Pepys refers many times in his famous diary to visiting the playhouse in order to watch or re-watch the performance of some particular actress, ...
See also:Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Theatre companies, Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82, Restoration comedy - United Company 1682–95, Restoration comedy - War of the theatres 1695–1700, Restoration comedy - Actors, Restoration comedy - First actresses, Restoration comedy - First celebrity actors, Restoration comedy - Comedies, Restoration comedy - Aristocratic comedy 1660–80, Restoration comedy - Decline of comedy 1678–90, Restoration comedy - Comedy renaissance 1690–1700, Restoration comedy - End of comedy, Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Stage history, Restoration comedy - Literary criticism, Restoration comedy - List of notable Restoration comedies Read more here: » Restoration comedy: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Actors |
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Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82.
Charles II was an active and interested patron of the drama. Soon after his restoration, in 1660, he granted exclusive play-staging rights, so-called Royal patents, to the King's Company and the Duke's Company, led by two middle-aged Caroline playwrights, Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant. The patentees scrambled for performance rights to the previous generation's Jacobean and Caroline plays, which were the first necessity for economic su ...
See also:Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Theatre companies, Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82, Restoration comedy - United Company 1682–95, Restoration comedy - War of the theatres 1695–1700, Restoration comedy - Actors, Restoration comedy - First actresses, Restoration comedy - First celebrity actors, Restoration comedy - Comedies, Restoration comedy - Aristocratic comedy 1660–80, Restoration comedy - Decline of comedy 1678–90, Restoration comedy - Comedy renaissance 1690–1700, Restoration comedy - End of comedy, Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Stage history, Restoration comedy - Literary criticism, Restoration comedy - List of notable Restoration comedies Read more here: » Restoration comedy: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - Theatre companies |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath While the Wars of the Three Kingdoms pre-figured many of the changes that would shape modern Britain, in the short term it resolved little. The English Commonwealth was neither a monarchy nor a real republic. In practise Oliver Cromwell exercised power rather informally, and without a written constitution. There was religious freedom under this regime, but not for Roman Catholics. The Church of England was abolished, as was the House of Lords, but power was never given to the House of Commons and there were no fresh elections. Nor did Cromwe ...
See also:Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Background, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Religious Confrontation in Scotland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - England, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Ireland, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - War Breaks Out, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Main events, Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath Read more here: » Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Encyclopedia II - Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Aftermath |
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| | | | English Restoration: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy
Restoration comedy - Stage history.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the sexual frankness of Restoration comedy ensured that theatre producers cannibalised it or adapted it with a heavy hand, rather than actually performed it. Today, Restoration comedy is again appreciated on the stage. The classics, Wycherley's The Country Wife and The Plain-Dealer, Etherege's The Man of Mode, and Congreve's Love For Love and The Way of the World have competition not only from Vanbrugh's ...
See also:Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Theatre companies, Restoration comedy - Original patent companies 1660–82, Restoration comedy - United Company 1682–95, Restoration comedy - War of the theatres 1695–1700, Restoration comedy - Actors, Restoration comedy - First actresses, Restoration comedy - First celebrity actors, Restoration comedy - Comedies, Restoration comedy - Aristocratic comedy 1660–80, Restoration comedy - Decline of comedy 1678–90, Restoration comedy - Comedy renaissance 1690–1700, Restoration comedy - End of comedy, Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy, Restoration comedy - Stage history, Restoration comedy - Literary criticism, Restoration comedy - List of notable Restoration comedies Read more here: » Restoration comedy: Encyclopedia II - Restoration comedy - After Restoration comedy |
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