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Restoration drama Heroic tragedy: high milieu, nations depend on actions of superhero, conflict love-duty; loyalty; heroic couplets Neo-classical tragedy: strict structure, 3 unities, violence off stage, bank verse, very often turgid. Spanish intrigue comedy: disguises, mistaken identities

Restoration drama Comedy of manners: satirical, witty repartee, wits vs wit-woulds; character stereotpyes: rake, witty heroine, fop, country fool, lustful old woman, senile old husband/suitor, love = sexual lust, not romantic involvement Tastes changed at the turn of the century.

Restoration women dramatists Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: The Convent of Pleasure Katherine Philips, „the matchless Orinda“

Aphra Behn 1640?-89 In her youth went to Surinam? Married a Dutch merchant? Went to Netherlands as a spy Wrote plays The Rover 1677 Feign‘d Courtesans 1679 The Lucky Chance 1686 The Widdow Ranter 1689

Aphra Behn Love-Letters between a Nobleman to his Sister (1684) The Fair Jilt (1688) Oroonoko (1688)

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