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QUESTIONS: 1.Shakespeare's sonnet sequence? 2.The importance of Lyrical Ballads? 3.The main features and authors of the Augustan age? 4.Compare Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson? 5. Picaresque novel and main authors? 6. Bacons works? 7. Paradise Lost? 8.Early sentimental novel, definition, authors? 9. The main features of Romanticism? 10. The pre-raphaelite brotherhood, concept (name),features,autors? 11. Robert Burns and his contribution to English literature? 12. The Graveyard school of poetry, authors? 13. John Donne's poetry? 14. Metaphysical school of poetry, main authors? 15. Give 5 differences between the augustan (restoration) age and romantic age? 16. Main elisabethan prose writers? 17.Poetic drama in romantic period? 18. Keats contributions? 19. Restoration sentimental comedy? 20.Epistolary novel, authors? 21.Milton? 22. The romantic period? 23. Laurence Sterne? 24. Lord Byron? 25. The Restoration Drama, main authors? 26. Two submovements (trends) in Victorian poetry? 27. Renaissance prose, main authors? 28. Shakespeare and his sonnets? 29. Shakespeare's opinion on Elizabethan poetry (provide example)? 30. Byronic hero? 31 Theatre licensing act intentions and consequences? 32. Compare Shakespeare's sonnet 130 to Spenser's Amoretti? 33. Paradise Regained? 34. Sentimental comedy, main autors? 35. Edmund Spenser, discuss his works? 36. William Blake (what influenced him)? 37. Issues of the Renaissance writer as compared to medieval literautre? 38. Thomas More, his importance in Eng. Lit.? 39. Compare changes between Victorian and Romantic poets? 40 Epistolary novel, definition, authors? 41. Early english critical novel?

Answers: 1. Shakespeare's sonnet sequence 3 quatrains (appsear as one stanza) + the couplet (the solution or the summarized idea), rhyme abab cdcd efef gg (glej vpraanje 28) 2. The importance of Lyrical Ballads The first manifesto of the new poetry/romantic movement and deals with the issue of appropriate language. Typically considered to have marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature. 3. The main features and authors of the Augustan age Predominance of classical values:clarity, precision, avoidance of sentimentality . power of reason, common agreement among people, imagination should be controlled by reason and make space for discipline, The age of Reason, Neo classical Age, Restoration Authors:John Milton (On the morning of Christ's nativity, L'allegro, Paradise lost), John Dryden(the hind and the panter, Mac Flecknoe), Alexander Pope(The essay on chriticism, essay on man) 4. Compare Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson R.Browning (associated with intellectual production, the need for objectivity, standart of balance and precision) A.Tennyson (idealistic, spontaneous; direct continuation of romanticism; the cult of beauty; sympathy with emotions) 5. A picaresque novel and main autors A picaresque novel (appeared in Renaissance) tells an episodic story (divided into episodes) of a vagrant rogue's (rogue = a thief, a dishonest person) progress towards his/her own improvementi into an honest person accepted in society (a progress from bad to good) but the reward does not come on earth. Authors: Moll Flanders (by Daniel Defoe), Tom Jones, Sarah Fielding (The Adventures of David Simple), Elizabeth Haywood (The History of Miss Betty Thoughtless), Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Tobias Smollett, Roderick Randone 6. Bacons works Essays statements of fundamental ethic principles The advancement of Learning an attempt to draw a distinction between theological truth and scientific truth. Novum Organum , The New Atlantis 7. Paradise Lost An epic treatment of Man's first disobedience, death woe, loss; through Adams and Eva's corruption all humankind is corrupted, and Paradise is lost (but if they hadn't committed the sin, there would be no humankind) 8. Sentimental novel, definition, authors The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age. The prototype of the English sentimental novel is Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela (1740). The term and the literary style originate in medieval French (and later English) romances, in which the hero is 2

usually preoccupied with his or her love and love sufferings. The novelist Henry Fielding, known later for his novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, satirized the sentimental style in his early novels Shamela and Joseph Andrews. Sentimental novels are related to the domestic fiction of the early eighteenth century. Among the most famous sentimental novels is Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768). Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts of "pity, tenderness, and benevolence" over social duties. Authors: Laurence Sterne (The Sentimental Yourney), Samuel Richardson in Henry Fielding (Humphrey Clinker), Henry Mackenzie (The man of feeling), Oliver Goldsmith 9. The main features of Romanticism Indicates the end of the dominant Renaissance tradition; oppression of nobility, opposition to rationalism and classicist aesthetics; the individual is a creature of feeling and imagination; the importance of nature; importance of folk tradition Childhood is seen as mans closest link to the ideal existence before his birth:obsession with the past; Romantic escapism from reality to exotic (Blake, Burns, Wordsworth,..) 10. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, concept (name), features, authors A group of writers, painters, critics, poets who rebelled against the conventional academic sylaes of painting modelled uopn Raphael, mid 19th century. They admired artists, their cultural heroes, such as Dante, Keats, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson and they represented a revolt against the ugliness of modern life and dress. Founders were William Holman Hunt and John Averet Millais (painters) and a poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They took Keat's ballad ''La Belle Dame Sans Merci'' as their foundation, they also adired Keats for his musical thoughts and suggestibility. Their models were Italian Renaissance artists, they attempted to recapture the simplicity of medieval art (fidelity to nature, moral seriousness). Created an atmosphere of deep truth and naivety, delt with mystical and religious themes, legends. Issued a periodical ''The Germ'' in 1850. Main authors (literature) Dante G. Rosseti, Christina G. Rossetti and William Morris. 11. Robert Burns and his contribution to English literature regarded as the greatest of the 18th century rustic poetry fused classicism and romanticism (love for nature, interest in the poor and in animals, imagination, sensibility);assimilated a long line of Scottish literary tradition: realism, humour, lyricism that never loses touch with reality, emotion rarely free of malice 12. The Graveyard school of poetry, authors Thomas Gray, Edward Young, Robert Blair the beginning of the Romantic movement can be traced back into the second half of the 18th century when its attitudes and interests are already visible: the belief in mans potentialities, in his perfectibility, in his power of feeling and imagination, in his intuitive communion with nature, in his fundamental goodness; the pre-Romantic poets emphasized human feelings and foster the cult of the noble savage (the simple unsophisticated being possessing instinctive goodness); a revival of interest in the strange and exotic, in the tale of horror, in the Scandinavian legends 13. John Donne's poetry fond of paradox, witty conceits, imaginative picturing, play of paradoxes questions everything, never searches for easy answers stresses the interconnection of life and death throughout human existence never tries to idealize the objects of his passion 3

Song: cynical when speaking about love; The Apparition: a frustrated lover is trying to take revenge on his mistress; easy play with mortality; Elegie XIX: Going to Bed: comparing the human body to a map, a landscape or a continent; alternating between physical and spiritual beauty of man; the lady is considered more beautiful than this world Holly Sonnets: after his wife died, he wrote religious poetry; about the paradox in mans relation to God 14. Metaphysical school of poetry, main authors Queen Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor monarchs; James I was the first of the Stuarts The Stuart age is marked by a critical, questioning and scientific spirit. A new literary movement, the Metaphysical School of Poetry, was led by John Donne, Ben Johnson, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marwell, and Thomas Carew. They rejected the conventional elements of Elizabethan poetry. The new style: compressed, joining seemingly disparate images, paradox, wit, colloquial language, juxtapositions. Metaphysical conceits: unusual images (comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness), farfetched comparisons, joining things that are primarily unlike. T.S. Elliot brought the metaphysical into the centre of attention as poetry really close to modern times (how to join the spiritual and physical part of human existence). 15. Give 5 differences between the augustan age and romantic age 1. AA - literature reflected society; RA - literature 'reformed' society (preface, Shelley's ''Prometheus Unbound'') 2. AA - classical themes, influences; RA - moving away from the classical, rediscovery of the local 3. AA - desire for order and balance in measure; RA - the indefinite and boundless 4. AA - intelect prevailed; RA - emotion and imagination prevailed 5. AA - relies on reason and fact, not speculation; RA - desires and dreams, the visionary, mystical 6. AA - trying to frame rules of writing; RA - rejecting the rules of poetic diction (W. Wordsworth's preface to the 2nd edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'') 16. Main Elizabethan prose writers Bacon, Hooker (first major prose work in modern English) Renaissance poetry Sidney... Spenser... Shakespeare... Metaphysical school of poetry(Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Carew, Marvel)... Renaissance prose Sir Francis Bacon - Essays, The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis Richard Hooker - Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Thomas Nashe - Pierce Peniless, The Anatomy of Absurdity Sir Walter Raleigh - The Discovery of Guiana, History of The World Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy 17. Poetic drama in romantic period Verse/Poetic drama is any drama written in verse. It is meant to be read not acted. It's feature is seriousness of tragedy. Main authors: Byron (Manfred, Marino Faliero), Shelley (The Tragedy of Cenci, Prometheus Unbound) 18. Keats contributions his desire to be immortal is often linked with his preoccupation with death his earthly dreams cannot be realized and therefore he hopes they may at last be realized in death one of the most important themes of his poetry is the search for beauty and truth 4

Poems; Endymion: A Poetic Romance; Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems ;La belle Dame sans Merci 19. Restoration sentimental comedy a kind of comedy that achieved some popularity with respectable middleclass audiences in the 18th century. In contrast with the aristocratic cynicism of English Restoration comedy, it showed virtue rewarded by domestic bliss; its plots, usually involving unbelievably good middleclass couples, emphasized pathos rather than humour. Pioneered by Richard Steele in The Funeral and more fully in The Conscious Lovers; COLLEY CIBBER(Loves Last Shift ,The Non-Juror) ,OLIVER GOLDSMITH - She Stoops to Conquer-mockery: sentimental comedy is not funny unless ridiculed (a victory in the battle against the sentimental comedy);RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 20. Epistolary novel, authors a novel written in the form of a series of letters exchanged among the characters of the story, with extracts from their journals sometimes included. A form of narrative often used in English and French novels of the 18th century, it has been revived only rarely since then, as in John Barth's Letters . Important examples include Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa ;Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose , and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses Authors: Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding 21. Milton affected by political turbulence, religious conflicts, and his health; with his political speech Areopagitica he attacked Hobbess The Leviathan; he fought for the right of free speech (because the Parliament introduced censorship);On the Morning of Christs Nativity his first important work; a hymn that celebrates the end of paganism; LAllegro and Il Peseroso the cheerful vs. the thoughtful;Lycidas a pastoral elegy and a religious ;On His Blindness; Paradise Lost 22. The romantic period GLEJ VPRASANJE 9 LORD BYRON ;WILLIAM BLAKE(Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience ,Poems of Innocence and Experience); ROBERT BURNS (Kilmarnock Volume and Edinburgh Volume:Tam OShanter);THE OLDER GENERATION OF ROMANTICS (WILLIAM WORDSWORTH -Tintern Abbey;S. T. COLERIDGE Kubla Khan,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner);THE YOUNG ROMANTICS-they reflect in their poetry frustrated hopes in mans freedom and individualism;show the contrast between reality and mans ideal in a melancholic way LORD BYRON (Hours of Idleness)

23. Laurence Sterne the founding father of the 20th century stream-of-consciousness novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman -the greatest reflexive novel; a parody of contemporary conventions of novel as a genre (a daring escape from the models established by epic or by history) its organisation lies in the consciousness of the narrator; digressions bring about a hundred topics all mixed together incomplete sentences, blank pages, diagrams (not finished); influenced by John Lockes essay on human understanding: every man lives in a world of his own, is a prisoner of his private inner world, which is also his own creation; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy a parody of the conventional travel-book; an episodic collection of sketches; paving the way to romanticism 24. Lord Byron his poetry is informed by public life and by recent history, by British politics and by the feverish European nationalisms stirred by the French Revolution 5

it moves from the self-explorative to the polemic, from the melancholic to the comic, from the mockheroic to the passionately amorous he tries to find an escape from reality in what is strange and distant Child Harolds Pilgrimage ; Don Juan ; Manfred 25. The Restoration Drama the public theatres re-opened in 1660; the audience was the upper-class, while in Shakespeares theatre it was mixed ;two licensed theatres in London: the Theatre Royal and the Dukes House; the main characteristics: experimentation, scepticism, cynicism, sharpness new genres: heroic drama, romance, intrigue comedy, refined comedy, prcieuse tragicomedy ; the natural preoccupation of the Restoration tragedy with politics also took its cue from Shakespeare (his plays appeared in adapted versions) ;the comedies were concerned with English philandery; in the beginning of the 18th century, there was a reaction to the Restoration comedy it went into decline; during the 18th ct., the Restoration plays were performed in adapted versions, in the 19th ct. they hardly appeared; the sentimental comedy appeared instead 26. Two submovements (trends) in Victorian poetry 1. associated with intellectual production; the need for objectivity, standard of balance and precision (Robert Browning) 2. idealistic, spontaneous; direct continuation of romanticism; the cult of beauty; sympathy with emotions (lord Alfred Tennyson) 27. Renaissance prose, main authors The Tudor dynasty (1485 1603): modern English and a firm sense of England as a nation state emerged. Henry VIII's religious reform temporarily cut England off, politically, artistically, and religiously from the European mainstream. The literature which sprang from, or was influenced by, the culture of the English court in the 16th and early 17th cts. reflected the political and religious inclinations of a ruling lite. Geographical discoveries. Man and the universe were being explored. Great flowering of all arts. The authorised version of the Bible: King James's Bible (1611). New poetic forms and an interest in ancient poetic forms were brought from Italy. The revival of classical learning, the study of ancient literature and thought, which was regarded as the essential Inheritance of modern civilization. The function of poetry was to teach and delight simultaneously. Authors: SIR FRANCIS BACON (Essayes, The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, The New Atlantis), RICHARD HOOKER (Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity), ROBERT BURTON, THOMAS MORE, WALTER RALEIGH, THOMAS NASHE. 28. Shakespeare and his sonnets 154 Sonnets (written in the 1590s, published in 1609): 1 126 addressed to a fair youth (about time and mortality), 127 152 addressed to the Dark Lady, the last two give a new twist to the erotic theme by playing with stories of Cupid. 1. Sonnet 18: love superseeds time and is outlasted by poetry. 2. Sonnet 29: he is in a poor condition but friendship makes him satisfied with himself. 3. Sonnet 42: agony a woman deceives him with a friend. 4. Sonnet 116: true love is not conditioned. 5. Sonnet 129: lust cannot be avoided. 6. Sonnet 130: declaring love for his lady not needing to magnify her beauty. 29. Shakespeare's opinion on Elizabethan poetry (provide example) Sonnet 130 parody of other love poetry (danica str. 6, 7)

30. Byronic hero The Byronic hero is an idealised but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of English Romantic poet Lord Byron. A melancholy and solitary figure who in his actions often defies social convnctions. The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 31. Theatre licensing act intentions and consequences was a landmark act of censorship of the British stage and one of the most determining factors in the development of Augustan drama. The terms of the Act were that from that point forward, the Lord Chamberlain had the power to approve any play before it was staged. (in 1737, the Theatres Licensing Act was introduced by Lord Chamberlain, and it effectively silenced all political and religious satires and all the sexual immorality on stage). Only two theaters were licensed: the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and The Duke's House. 32. Compare Shakespeare's sonnet 130 to Spenser's Amoretti Shakespeare's sonnet is a parody and it talks about a dark lady. Spenser's Amoretti is not a parody and it talks about his wife Elizabeth Boyle. The sonnets are just opposite from each other. 33. Paradise Regained Sequel to Paradise Lost in 4 books; the theme of St. Lukes gospel: describes Christ after 40 days of fasting, ends the reign of Satan. Poem deprived of dramatic possibilities, it lacks irony and tension. Christ lacks the element of human indetification (immediately sees through Satan's disguise), he becomes an ideal ex. of what the humanity should be rather than what it is (Christ won't yield to Satan's temptations). This poem is easier to comprehend than Paradise Lost. 34. Sentimental comedy, main autors In 20th century drama reappeared by sentimental comedy, a simplistic form of comedy (contrary to comedy of manners which was brute, harsh and outspoken). The sentimental comedy as about family life, how goodness is rewarded. Main authors: Sir Richard Steele, Colley Cibber, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan 35. Edmund Spenser, discuss his works Next to Shakespeare the greatest man of the Renaissance, the New Poet. His model was Geoffrey Chaucer. Borrowed the form of the Petrarchan sonnet. SPENSERIAN STANZA: 8 iambic pentameters + and alexandrine (6 iambic feet) 9 lines of verse, rhyme ababbcbcc. The Shepherds Calendar: 12 pastoral dialogues; a variety of metrical forms Amoretti (1595): 89 sonnets celebrating his love for Elizabeth Boyle; a story of a lover who is at first rejected, then accepted but in the end his mistress turns against him again Epithalamion: a marriage hymn of 23 stanzas of 17 19 lines; celebration of the courtship; seeing the mistress not as an unattainable image of perfection, but as a creature reflecting, and sometimes clouding the glory of her Divine Creator; love is the lesson which the Lord us taught The Faerie Queene (1596): the image of the eloquent and armour-plated Elizabeth based on a parallel figure from Ariostos Orlando Furioso (imitations of phrases, verbal patterns and knightly images); book 1: HOLINESS, book 2: TEMPERANCE, book 3: CHASTITY, book 4: FRIENDSHIP, book 5: JUSTICE, book 6: COURTESY, book 7: MUTABILITY seven virtues of a good knight 36. William Blake (what influenced him) Bitter outcries against loveless, religious hypocrisy. His sources and inspirations range from the Bible and the Bible-derived epic structures of Dante and Milton, the Jewish cabalistic ideas, the children poetry, to the eccentric Swedish visionary and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg (mystical Christianity). His work is pervaded with the symbolism, imagery, and prophetic utterance of the Bible. He 7

approached closely to the obscure mysticism of the 17th-century German theosophist Jakob Boehme, who claimed that God the father was neither good nor evil, but contained the germs of both. He emphasised the individuals mystic union with divine reality. The tigers and horses, the lions and lambs, the children and adults, the innocent and the experienced of Blakes symbolism ought to be perceived as integral elements in the dynamic of synthesis which he saw as implicit in creation. Songs of Innocence: the children poems style; innocence is symbolised by children, flowers, thelamb; happiness, love Songs of Experience: grief and rebellion towards the world Both books are interrelated; the two contrary states of the human soul suggest the possibility of progress towards a Christ-inspired higher innocence and a future regain of paradise Marriage of Heaven and Hell: without contraries there is no progression Poems of Innocence and Experience: ideal vs. Real 37. Issues of the Renaissance writer as compared to medieval literautre

38. Thomas More, his importance in Eng. Lit. Pioneer in travel writing and political critic of the English monarchy. Studied Carthusian philosophy. The highest duty of a man was to serve his king Utopia = nowhere land, imaginary society: The search for the best possible form of government (an ideal society, communist ideas, personal property abolished); written in 2 books 1st analyzes the evils of his age in ironic, realistic manner; 2nd book satirical, state with religious tolerance, with social heavens, physical comforts, honesty and good faith. Influenced Robinson Crusoe, Gullivers Travels, Brave New World (Huxely), Lord of the Flies (Golding) 39. Compare changes between Victorian and Romantic poets 40. Epistolary novel, definition, authors 41. Early english critical novel

Gap Fill: 1. Priblino: King Henry VIII separated ___________ (Anglican church) from Rome. The Bible was translated in English and was called ____________ (King James' Bible). The most common figure of speech of the Metaphysical poets was _________ (metaphysical conceit), skilfully developet by the leading author _________ (John Donne). Philhellenism is ___________ (the love of everything Greek) and was promoted by ____________ (Lord Byron). Alexander Pope used a form called _________ (the heroic couplet), seen in his most known work ___________. Shakespeares long narrative poems are _________ (The Rape of Lucrece) and ____________ (Venus and Adonis). The stream-of-consciousness novel was developed by ________ (Laurence Sterne) as seen in his main work ________ (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy). Browning used a form of spoken verse ________ (dramatic monologue) as seen in his work ________________(The Ring and the Book).

Dryden was not only a poet but also ___________(essayist). His essays include themes ______________(political and religious). The most important 17th ct. epic __________ (Paradise Lost) and his author _________ (John Milton). Reaction on comedy of manners ______ (Theatre Licensing Act) which promoted ___________ (censorship). 2. po kom se je zgledoval Preeren (Lord Byron) in kaj je od njega prevedel (Parisina), kdo od viktorijancev je nadaljeval romantino tradicijo(Alfred Tennyson), neki kdo je bil najveji pisatej dobe restoration (Alexander Pope) in kaj je napisal (The Dunciad), ktera je glavna figura pri metaphisical school (metaphysical conceit metaphor?) al neki in v katerem delu se to vidi (John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, a song?), glavni predstavnik graveyard school (Edward Young?) in kaj je napisal (The complaint or Night Thoughts?). Authors and their works (from Milton): John Dryden (1631-1700) The hind and the panther (1687) Abssalom and Achitophel (1681) Essay of Dramatic Poese (1668) Fables Ancient and Modern (1700) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Essays in Criticism (1711) The Rape of The Lock (1712) The Dunciad (1726) 1743 essay on man Graveyard school of poetry Thomas gray (1716-1771) An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1751 Edward Young 1683-1765 The complaint or Night Thoughts 1742-44 Robert Blair 1699-1746 The Grave (1743) blank verse 700+ lines James Thomson 1700-1748 The Seasons1726-1730 William Collins (1721 1759) In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies William Couper 1731 1800 The Task 1785 Oliver Goldsmith 1728 1774 the deserted village 1770 George Crabbe (1754-1832)- The village Restoration drama John Dryden All for love (1678), an original remake of Shakespeares Anthony and Cleopatra Thomas Otway (1652 1685) The major original tragedian of this period. The Orphan (1680) Venice Preserved (1682) George Lillo (1693-1739) Voiced the middle class voice in theatre. The London Merchant (1731) The Fatal Curiosity (1736) 9

The Comedy of Manners Romantic type: William Wycherley (?1640-1716) The Country Wife (1675) most obscene and amoral of all restoration plays The Plain Dealer (1676) about a misanthrope Manly William Congreve (1670 1729) Leans toward romantic comedy. The Old Bachelor (1693) The Double Dealer (1693) Love for Love (1695) They lead to the best show of restoration comedy: The Way of the World (1700) Sir George Etherege (?1635-1691) Wrote the subtlest light comedy of the period. The Man of Mode (1676) George Farquhar (farker) (1678-1707) The Recruiting Officer (1706) Sir John Vanburgh (1664-1726) The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger (1696) The Provoked Wife (1697) Jeremy Collier, nonjuring clergyman who wrote a work A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage (1698). At the beginning of the 18th century this period went into decline because of appearance of novels, attacks on it content (look up), and The Theatres Licensing Act by the Lord Chamberlain (1737) which silenced all political, sexual content in plays. Severe censorship. Sentimental comedy, family life, goodness is always rewarded much different now. Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) The Funeral (1702) The Tender Husband (1703) The Lying Lover (1704)

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