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short essay on Restoration Drama.
In 1642 the theatres were closed by the authority of the parliament
which was dominated by Puritans and so no good plays were written from 1642
till the Restoration (coming back of monarchy in England with the accession of
Charles II to the throne) in 1660 when the theatres were re-opened. The drama
in England after 1660, called the Restoration drama, showed entirely
new trends on account of the long break with the past. Moreover, it
was greatly affected by the spirit of the new age which was deficient in
poetic feeling, imagination and emotional approach to life, but laid emphasis
on prose as the medium of expression, and intellectual, realistic and critical
approach to life and its problems. As the common people still under the
influence of Puritanism had no love for the theatres, the dramatists had to
cater to the taste of the aristocratic class which was highly fashionable,
frivolous, cynical and sophisticated. The result was that unlike the
Elizabethan drama which had a mass appeal, had its roots in the life of the
common people and could be legitimately called the national drama, the
Restoration drama had none of these characteristics. Its appeal was confined to
the upper strata of society whose taste was aristocratic, and among which the
prevailing fashions and etiquettes were foreign and extravagant.......................................
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