Caroline to Romantic

Question 1

The Restoration:

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1660–1700

Question 2

open the first Theatre Royal in Dublin in

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1662 in Smock Alley.

Question 3

The Rover

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Aphra Behn (1677)

Question 4

The Man of Mode

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George Etherege (1676)

Question 5

Andrew Marvell described who as “the best English satirist”

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George Etherege

Question 6

Willmore in The Rover and the witty, poetry-reciting rake Dorimant in George Etherege’s The Man of Mode (1676) are seen as a satire on whom?

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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Question 7

A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind written by

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John Wilmot

Question 8

Age of Dryden

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Restoration Period

Question 9

W. H. Auden referred to whom as “the master of the middle style”

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John Dryden

Question 10

Mc Feknoe was written in

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MacFlecknoe (1682).

Question 11

Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent to whom in 1670. The post then became a regular British institution.

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John Dryden

Question 12

Diarists _________ and ___________depicted everyday London life and the cultural scene of the times.

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John Evelyn (1620–1706) and Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

Question 13

Great Plague of London

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1644–5

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The Great Fire of London

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(1666).

Question 15

The Pilgrim’s Progress Part I and part 2 published when

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1678, 1684

Question 16

The Augustan age:

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1701–1750

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The Augustan Age description

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Writers at this time “greatly admired their Roman counterparts, imitated their works and frequently drew parallels between” contemporary world and the age of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 AD – BC 14)

Question 18

Some of the major writers in the augustan period

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John Dryden, the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift , William Congreve, Joseph Addison (1672–1719), Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson.

Question 19

The Adventures of Roderick Random (Augustan age)

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1748, Tobias Smolett

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The Spectator (Augustan age)

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Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’

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Roxana and Moll Flanders (Augustan Age)

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Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders

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(1719), (1722)

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Samuel Richardson, author of the epistolary novels

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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48)

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Henry Fielding wrote

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Joseph Andrews (1742) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749).

Question 25

Jonathan Swift (aug age) wrote

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Gulliver's travels, A modest proposal

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The English pictorial satirist and editorial cartoonist

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William Hogarth

Question 27

William Congreve wrote-(aug age)

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The way of the world (1700)

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George Farquhar wrote -(aug age)

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The Recruiting Officer (1706)

Question 29

The age of Augustan drama was brought to an end by the censorship established by the _____________ which was modified as ____________ in the year ___________ and later in the year 1968 called that ______________

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The age of Augustan drama was brought to an end by the censorship established by the Licensing Act of 1737 which was modified as Theatres Act in the year 1843 and later in the year 1968 called that Theatres Act 1968

Question 30

The most outstanding poet of the Augustan age is Alexander Pope (1688–1744), whose major works include

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The Rape of the Lock (1712; enlarged in 1714); a translation of the Iliad (1715–20); a translation of the Odyssey (1725–26); The Dunciad (1728; 1743)

Question 31

____________produced his melancholy The Seasons (1728–30) and _______________________ wrote his poem Night-Thoughts (1742).

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James Thomson (1700–48), Edward Young (1681–1765)

Question 32

The second half of the 18th century is sometimes called the

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"Age of Johnson"

Question 33

After _________ of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in

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nine years, 1755

Question 34

This period of the 18th century saw the emergence of three major Irish authors

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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), and Laurence Sterne (1713–68)

Question 35

The Vicar of Wakefield was written by whom and when

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(1766) Oliver Goldsmith

Question 36

The Deserted Village and She Stoops to Conquer was written by and when

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1770, Oliver Goldsmith; she stoops(1773)

Question 37

Sheridan's first play

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The Rivals 1775

Question 38

3 sentimental novels

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Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759 – 67).

Question 39

Name a novel of Manners and this was written by whom

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Evelina by Francis Burney

Question 40

The graveyard poets were

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``` The poets include; Thomas Gray William Cowper Christopher Smart Thomas Chatterton Robert Blair and Edward Young ```

Question 41

When was the Castle of Otranto written and by whom

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Horace Walpole's 1764

Question 42

The Mysteries of Udolpho

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Anne Radcliff 1794

Question 43

The Monk was written by

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(1796), by Matthew Lewis

Question 44

Scottish poet was a pioneer of the Romantic movement

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Robert Burns (1759–1796)