1. Is marked by comedies, influenced by the French theater and marked by satire.

2.  1660 › Stuart restore Charles II to throne › Dryden writes Astraea Redux  1662 › Royal society founded as reorganization of Philosophical Society  1667 › Milton: Paradise Lost  1670 › Dryden made poet laureate  1676 › Etheredge, The Man of Mode › Restoration comedy begins to spread  1682 › Dryden: MacFlecknoe

3.  1711 › Pope: essay on Criticism › Addison: Steele, The Spectator (first periodical)  1719 › Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (first novel in English)  1722 › Defoe: journal of the Plague Years Moll Flanders  1725 › Pope’s edition of Shakespeare  1726 › Swift: Gulliver’s Travels  1728 › Gay: Beggars Opera

4.  1742 › Fielding, Joseph Andrews  1749 › Fielding, Tom Jones  1764 › Walpole, Castle of Otranto (first graphic novel in English)