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Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Earliest Stages 800–1550
For the earliest stages of the Dutch language (and so its literature), the boundaries with what is now considered German are vague, and s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Plots
The Country Wife is more neatly constructed than most Restoration comedies, but is typical of its time and place in having three sources ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carolingian Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Carolingian Art - Illuminated Manuscripts
The most numerous surviving works of the Carolingian renaissance are illuminated manuscripts. Under Charlemagne's direction, new Gospels ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - First Performance
The Country Wife was first performed in January 1675, by the King's Company, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. This luxurious playhouse, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Key Scenes
Notorious scenes in the play include "the china scene", a sustained double entendre dialogue mostly heard from off stage, where Horner is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Stage History
The play had a good initial run, although Horner's trick and the notorious china scene immediately raised offense. Wycherley laughed off ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Modern Criticism
The past fifty years have seen a major change, and academic critics have acknowledged the play as a powerful and original work. Norman Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Critical History
From its creation until the mid-20th century, The Country Wife was subject to both aesthetic praise and moral outrage. Many critics throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Country Wife: Encyclopedia Ii - The Country Wife - Background
After the 18-year Puritan stage ban was lifted at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the theatrical life of London recreated itself...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Nineteenth Century
Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also ecce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carolingian Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Carolingian Art - Painting
We know from written sources of frescos in churches and palaces, although most have not survived. Charlemagne's Aachen palace contained a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carolingian Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Carolingian Art - Sculpture And Metalwork
Carolingian sculptors created book covers in carved ivory, with themes largely derived from Late Antiquity paintings. For example the fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carolingian Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Carolingian Art - Spolia
Spolia is the Latin term for "spoils" and is used to refer to the taking or appropriation of ancient monumental or other art works for ne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Renaissance And The Golden Age 1550–1670
Main article: Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature The first ripples of the Reformation appeared in Dutch literature in a collecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carolingian Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Carolingian Art - History
Carolingians found a taste for Mediterranean art when Charlemagne set out to rival the splendour of the Lateran in Rome where he had been...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Decline 1670–1795
Unlike English literature, where the Augustan period and the Age of Enlightenment sustained the high level of the Jacobean age, eighteent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Twentieth Century
As in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands the nineteenth century carried on unchanged until the events of World War I (1914–1918) ch...   » Read the article