5. Main Restauration Genre:
Restauration Comedy
Comedy of Manners
It reflected the manners and morals of upper
class society.
Its main subjects were (comic treatment):
love,
marriage,
marital complications,
cheating,
6. Commedy of Manners
Upper class manners vs. Middle class values,
Sex,
Country life vs city life,
Arranged marriages,
Older men or women looking for younger lovers.
11. AUGUSTAN TO GOTHIC.
1713-1789.
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
New inventions
Movement from country to city
Movement from England, Scotland and
Ireland to America
Revolutions for freedom