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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
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VOLUME VIII
THE AGE OF DRYDEN
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
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Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , P. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME VIII
THE AGE OF DRYDEN
HET
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PREFATORY NOTE
IN
N issuing the present volume of The Cambridge History of
English Literature, we desire to express our special obli-
gation to Mr Henry B. Wheatley for contributing a Dryden
bibliography, based on his unique collections and researches in
this subject. We have also to thank Mr A. T. Bartholomew
for bibliographical work in connection with several chapters
of this volume.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
January, 1912.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
DBYDEN
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , P. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
PAGE
6
Dryden and his age. His parentage and education. Heroick Stanzas
on Cromwell. Astraea Redux and other panegyrics. Annus Mira-
bilis. (Dryden's productivity as a dramatist. Influence of French
tragicomedy and romance. The Wild Gallant and other come-
dies: The Spanish Fryar. The heroic couplet in drama. Dryden
and the heroic play: The Conquest of Granada. The satire of
The Rehearsal. ) Essay Of Heroick Plays. Aureng-Zebe.
Dryden's adaptation of Shakespearean plays and themes. The
Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. His later plays: Don Sebas.
tian and Cleomenes. Dryden's work as a dramatist, Prologues
and epilogues. Dryden poet laureate. The "Rose-alley ambus
cade. Political satire: Absalom and Achitophel, part 1; The
Medal. Mac Flecknoe. Absalom and Achitophel, part II.
Didactic poetry: Religio Laici. Death of Charles II and accession
of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva.
Conversion to the church of Rome: The Hind and the Panther.
Various later work in verse and prose: Miscellanies. Translations:
Fables Ancient and Modern. Preface to the Fables. Odes,
Songs and Hymns. Dryden's enemies and younger literary friends.
His great qualities as a writer of verse and prose. His excellence
in various literary species. His originality that of treatment. The
eminence of his genins .
1
CHAPTER II
SAMUEL BUTLER
By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
Ancient and modern satire. Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The
Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais. Butler's life before and
after the restoration. Butler in the employ of Sir Samuel Luke
and the earl of Carbery. Penury of his later days. His learning
in letters and law. Imitations of his prose and verse: The Post-
humous Works. Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters.
Hudibras and its models. Course of parts 1 and 11. Difference
of treatment in part III. The methods in the composition of the
work. Metre of Hudibras. Main purpose of the satire. Butler's
gifts and powers
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Contents
CHAPTER III
POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL SATIRE
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
PAGE
Causes of the new development of satirical literature on political
subjects in the period following the restoration. Denham.
Marvell. The popish plot panio: Oldham. His Satyrs upon the
Jesuits. His powers and influence as a satirist. Lesser satires of
this and the following period: Poems on Affairs of State. Advices
to a Painter. The ghost and last will motives. Dialogues.
Ballads. Litanies. D'Urfey. Lilliburlero. Prose satires: The
Rehearsal Transpros'd. Satirical narratives and dialogues. Low
literary quality of these satires as a whole
80
CHAPTER IV
THE EARLY QUAKERS
By EDWARD GRUBB, M. A.
George Fox and the rise of the quaker movement in England. The
purpose of early quaker writings not literary. George Fox's
Journal. Thomas Ellwood's History of his Life. Other quaker
journals and memoirs. William Penn, and his No Cross No
Crown. Isaac and Mary Penington. James Nayler. Early
attacks upon the quakers, and their replies. Samuel Fisher.
Barclay's Apology. More purely literary efforts: Penn's Some
Fruits of Solitude. Ellwood's Collection of Poems on Various
Subjects. Mary Mollineux's Fruits of Retirement
101
.
CHAPTER V
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. I
By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
Players and plays after the closing of the theatres. Drolls. Relaxation
of the laws against dramatic entertainments towards the close of
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate. Sir William D'Avenant's enter-
tainments: The Siege of Rhodes. Dramatic companies formed
immediately before the restoration. The king's and the duke of
York's companies 'created' after it. Thomas Killigrow's and Sir
William D'Avenant's later plays. Old masterpieces revived.
Comedies reflecting the political reaction: The Rump and Cutter
of Coleman Street. Tatham. John Wilson. Stapylton. The
duke of Newcastle. Early Spanish influences in English drama.
Spanish personages in English plays. The indebtedness of Beau-
mont and Fletcher, and of other dramatists, before and after the
restoration, to Spanish novels, and to Spanish plays, examined and
summarised. Influence of French literature on the restoration
drama. Molière and restoration comedy. Influence of French
opera. Etherege and his place in the history of restoration drama.
Sir Charles Sedley. Lacy. Aphra Behn. Wycherley. The
Plain Dealer .
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Contents
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CHAPTER VI
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
PAGE
By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A.
Influence of French
tragicomedy and romance. The Wild Gallant and other come-
dies: The Spanish Fryar. The heroic couplet in drama. Dryden
and the heroic play: The Conquest of Granada. The satire of
The Rehearsal. ) Essay Of Heroick Plays. Aureng-Zebe.
Dryden's adaptation of Shakespearean plays and themes. The
Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. His later plays: Don Sebas.
tian and Cleomenes. Dryden's work as a dramatist, Prologues
and epilogues. Dryden poet laureate. The "Rose-alley ambus
cade. Political satire: Absalom and Achitophel, part 1; The
Medal. Mac Flecknoe. Absalom and Achitophel, part II.
Didactic poetry: Religio Laici. Death of Charles II and accession
of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva.
Conversion to the church of Rome: The Hind and the Panther.
Various later work in verse and prose: Miscellanies. Translations:
Fables Ancient and Modern. Preface to the Fables. Odes,
Songs and Hymns. Dryden's enemies and younger literary friends.
His great qualities as a writer of verse and prose. His excellence
in various literary species. His originality that of treatment. The
eminence of his genins .
1
CHAPTER II
SAMUEL BUTLER
By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
Ancient and modern satire. Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The
Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais. Butler's life before and
after the restoration. Butler in the employ of Sir Samuel Luke
and the earl of Carbery. Penury of his later days. His learning
in letters and law. Imitations of his prose and verse: The Post-
humous Works. Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters.
Hudibras and its models. Course of parts 1 and 11. Difference
of treatment in part III. The methods in the composition of the
work. Metre of Hudibras. Main purpose of the satire. Butler's
gifts and powers
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Contents
CHAPTER III
POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL SATIRE
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
PAGE
Causes of the new development of satirical literature on political
subjects in the period following the restoration. Denham.
Marvell. The popish plot panio: Oldham. His Satyrs upon the
Jesuits. His powers and influence as a satirist. Lesser satires of
this and the following period: Poems on Affairs of State. Advices
to a Painter. The ghost and last will motives. Dialogues.
Ballads. Litanies. D'Urfey. Lilliburlero. Prose satires: The
Rehearsal Transpros'd. Satirical narratives and dialogues. Low
literary quality of these satires as a whole
80
CHAPTER IV
THE EARLY QUAKERS
By EDWARD GRUBB, M. A.
George Fox and the rise of the quaker movement in England. The
purpose of early quaker writings not literary. George Fox's
Journal. Thomas Ellwood's History of his Life. Other quaker
journals and memoirs. William Penn, and his No Cross No
Crown. Isaac and Mary Penington. James Nayler. Early
attacks upon the quakers, and their replies. Samuel Fisher.
Barclay's Apology. More purely literary efforts: Penn's Some
Fruits of Solitude. Ellwood's Collection of Poems on Various
Subjects. Mary Mollineux's Fruits of Retirement
101
.
CHAPTER V
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. I
By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
Players and plays after the closing of the theatres. Drolls. Relaxation
of the laws against dramatic entertainments towards the close of
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate. Sir William D'Avenant's enter-
tainments: The Siege of Rhodes. Dramatic companies formed
immediately before the restoration. The king's and the duke of
York's companies 'created' after it. Thomas Killigrow's and Sir
William D'Avenant's later plays. Old masterpieces revived.
Comedies reflecting the political reaction: The Rump and Cutter
of Coleman Street. Tatham. John Wilson. Stapylton. The
duke of Newcastle. Early Spanish influences in English drama.
Spanish personages in English plays. The indebtedness of Beau-
mont and Fletcher, and of other dramatists, before and after the
restoration, to Spanish novels, and to Spanish plays, examined and
summarised. Influence of French literature on the restoration
drama. Molière and restoration comedy. Influence of French
opera. Etherege and his place in the history of restoration drama.
Sir Charles Sedley. Lacy. Aphra Behn. Wycherley. The
Plain Dealer .
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CHAPTER VI
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
PAGE
By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A. , Honorary Fellow of Jesus College
Congreve. The Old Bachelor. The Double-Dealer. Love for Love.
The Mourning Bride. The Way of the World. Congreve and
the comedy of manners. His comic art. His diction. His friends
and way of life. Vanbrugh's life and character. The Relapse.
The Provok'd Wife. The Confederacy. Vanbragh and Perrault.
Earlier attacks in this period on the stage: Rymer's Short View
of Tragedy. Jeremy Collier's Short View. Its invective and its
fallacies. Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden,
D'Urfey and Dennis. Farquhar as a comic dramatist. Love and
a Bottle; A Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the
Beaux. Stratagem. Shadwell. D'Urfey. Colley Cibber's earlier
plays. His Apology for his Life.
146
CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A. , Peterhouse, and of the
University Library
Characteristics of lesser restoration tragedy. Publio interest in
acting. The operatio element. The heroio play. Fresh influence
on restoration tragedy. Translations of Corneille. Influence of
Racine. Revived influence of earlier English work. Otway and
his career as a dramatist. The Orphan and Venice Preserv'd.
Their enduring popularity. Nathaniel Lee. Characteristics of
his plays. The Rival Queens, Crowne. Sir Courtly Nice.
His tragedies. Southerne. The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko.
Settle. Dennis. Banks. Hughes. Lansdowne. Ravenscroft.
Nicholas Rowe as a link between the later restoration drama and
that of the Augustan age. The Fair Penitent.
178
CHAPTER VIII
THE COURT POETS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A.
The lives and writings of the court poets as a protest against the
puritan domination. The circle of Whitehall. The pranks of the
wits. The court poets as men of action: Rochester, Buckhurst
and Mulgrave. The mark of the amateur on their writings.
Dryden's flattery of them. Rochester's life and character. His
quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden. Rochester as a satirist: The
Satire against Mankind. Sir Charles Sedley. His songs. Buck-
hurst: To all you Ladies now at Land. Mulgrave's Essay upon
Poetry. Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse
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CHAPTER IX
THE PROSODY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A, F. B. A. , LL. D. , D. Litt.
PAGE
The Spenserian era of English versification. Loss of elasticity and
diversity. Variations of the iambio line. Insufficient understand-
ing as to equivalence in feet. Decline of blank verse. The
redundant syllable and other means of varying the measure. "The
battle of the couplets’: Waller and Cowley.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
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VOLUME VIII
THE AGE OF DRYDEN
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
London: FETTER LANE, E. C. 4
Paris : THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY
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Copyrighted in the United States of America by
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THE
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH LITERATURE
EDITED BY
A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , P. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
AND
A. R. WALLER, M. A. , Peterhouse
VOLUME VIII
THE AGE OF DRYDEN
HET
*
POCT
WTHAT ONLINE
CAMBRIDGE:
at the University Press
1920
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TI NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
560466 A
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
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1931
First edition, 1912
New impression, 1920
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PREFATORY NOTE
IN
N issuing the present volume of The Cambridge History of
English Literature, we desire to express our special obli-
gation to Mr Henry B. Wheatley for contributing a Dryden
bibliography, based on his unique collections and researches in
this subject. We have also to thank Mr A. T. Bartholomew
for bibliographical work in connection with several chapters
of this volume.
A. W. W.
A. R. W.
January, 1912.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
DBYDEN
By A. W. WARD, Litt. D. , P. B. A. , Master of Peterhouse
PAGE
6
Dryden and his age. His parentage and education. Heroick Stanzas
on Cromwell. Astraea Redux and other panegyrics. Annus Mira-
bilis. (Dryden's productivity as a dramatist. Influence of French
tragicomedy and romance. The Wild Gallant and other come-
dies: The Spanish Fryar. The heroic couplet in drama. Dryden
and the heroic play: The Conquest of Granada. The satire of
The Rehearsal. ) Essay Of Heroick Plays. Aureng-Zebe.
Dryden's adaptation of Shakespearean plays and themes. The
Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. His later plays: Don Sebas.
tian and Cleomenes. Dryden's work as a dramatist, Prologues
and epilogues. Dryden poet laureate. The "Rose-alley ambus
cade. Political satire: Absalom and Achitophel, part 1; The
Medal. Mac Flecknoe. Absalom and Achitophel, part II.
Didactic poetry: Religio Laici. Death of Charles II and accession
of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva.
Conversion to the church of Rome: The Hind and the Panther.
Various later work in verse and prose: Miscellanies. Translations:
Fables Ancient and Modern. Preface to the Fables. Odes,
Songs and Hymns. Dryden's enemies and younger literary friends.
His great qualities as a writer of verse and prose. His excellence
in various literary species. His originality that of treatment. The
eminence of his genins .
1
CHAPTER II
SAMUEL BUTLER
By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
Ancient and modern satire. Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The
Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais. Butler's life before and
after the restoration. Butler in the employ of Sir Samuel Luke
and the earl of Carbery. Penury of his later days. His learning
in letters and law. Imitations of his prose and verse: The Post-
humous Works. Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters.
Hudibras and its models. Course of parts 1 and 11. Difference
of treatment in part III. The methods in the composition of the
work. Metre of Hudibras. Main purpose of the satire. Butler's
gifts and powers
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER III
POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL SATIRE
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
PAGE
Causes of the new development of satirical literature on political
subjects in the period following the restoration. Denham.
Marvell. The popish plot panio: Oldham. His Satyrs upon the
Jesuits. His powers and influence as a satirist. Lesser satires of
this and the following period: Poems on Affairs of State. Advices
to a Painter. The ghost and last will motives. Dialogues.
Ballads. Litanies. D'Urfey. Lilliburlero. Prose satires: The
Rehearsal Transpros'd. Satirical narratives and dialogues. Low
literary quality of these satires as a whole
80
CHAPTER IV
THE EARLY QUAKERS
By EDWARD GRUBB, M. A.
George Fox and the rise of the quaker movement in England. The
purpose of early quaker writings not literary. George Fox's
Journal. Thomas Ellwood's History of his Life. Other quaker
journals and memoirs. William Penn, and his No Cross No
Crown. Isaac and Mary Penington. James Nayler. Early
attacks upon the quakers, and their replies. Samuel Fisher.
Barclay's Apology. More purely literary efforts: Penn's Some
Fruits of Solitude. Ellwood's Collection of Poems on Various
Subjects. Mary Mollineux's Fruits of Retirement
101
.
CHAPTER V
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. I
By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
Players and plays after the closing of the theatres. Drolls. Relaxation
of the laws against dramatic entertainments towards the close of
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate. Sir William D'Avenant's enter-
tainments: The Siege of Rhodes. Dramatic companies formed
immediately before the restoration. The king's and the duke of
York's companies 'created' after it. Thomas Killigrow's and Sir
William D'Avenant's later plays. Old masterpieces revived.
Comedies reflecting the political reaction: The Rump and Cutter
of Coleman Street. Tatham. John Wilson. Stapylton. The
duke of Newcastle. Early Spanish influences in English drama.
Spanish personages in English plays. The indebtedness of Beau-
mont and Fletcher, and of other dramatists, before and after the
restoration, to Spanish novels, and to Spanish plays, examined and
summarised. Influence of French literature on the restoration
drama. Molière and restoration comedy. Influence of French
opera. Etherege and his place in the history of restoration drama.
Sir Charles Sedley. Lacy. Aphra Behn. Wycherley. The
Plain Dealer .
115
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Contents
ix
CHAPTER VI
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
PAGE
By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A.
Influence of French
tragicomedy and romance. The Wild Gallant and other come-
dies: The Spanish Fryar. The heroic couplet in drama. Dryden
and the heroic play: The Conquest of Granada. The satire of
The Rehearsal. ) Essay Of Heroick Plays. Aureng-Zebe.
Dryden's adaptation of Shakespearean plays and themes. The
Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. His later plays: Don Sebas.
tian and Cleomenes. Dryden's work as a dramatist, Prologues
and epilogues. Dryden poet laureate. The "Rose-alley ambus
cade. Political satire: Absalom and Achitophel, part 1; The
Medal. Mac Flecknoe. Absalom and Achitophel, part II.
Didactic poetry: Religio Laici. Death of Charles II and accession
of James II: Threnodia Augustalis and Britannia Rediviva.
Conversion to the church of Rome: The Hind and the Panther.
Various later work in verse and prose: Miscellanies. Translations:
Fables Ancient and Modern. Preface to the Fables. Odes,
Songs and Hymns. Dryden's enemies and younger literary friends.
His great qualities as a writer of verse and prose. His excellence
in various literary species. His originality that of treatment. The
eminence of his genins .
1
CHAPTER II
SAMUEL BUTLER
By WILLIAM FRANCIS SMITH, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
Ancient and modern satire. Influence of Le Roman de la Rose, The
Ship of Fools, Erasmus and Rabelais. Butler's life before and
after the restoration. Butler in the employ of Sir Samuel Luke
and the earl of Carbery. Penury of his later days. His learning
in letters and law. Imitations of his prose and verse: The Post-
humous Works. Contents of The Genuine Remains: Characters.
Hudibras and its models. Course of parts 1 and 11. Difference
of treatment in part III. The methods in the composition of the
work. Metre of Hudibras. Main purpose of the satire. Butler's
gifts and powers
58
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viii
Contents
CHAPTER III
POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL SATIRE
By C. W. PREVITÉ-ORTON, M. A. , Fellow of St John's College
PAGE
Causes of the new development of satirical literature on political
subjects in the period following the restoration. Denham.
Marvell. The popish plot panio: Oldham. His Satyrs upon the
Jesuits. His powers and influence as a satirist. Lesser satires of
this and the following period: Poems on Affairs of State. Advices
to a Painter. The ghost and last will motives. Dialogues.
Ballads. Litanies. D'Urfey. Lilliburlero. Prose satires: The
Rehearsal Transpros'd. Satirical narratives and dialogues. Low
literary quality of these satires as a whole
80
CHAPTER IV
THE EARLY QUAKERS
By EDWARD GRUBB, M. A.
George Fox and the rise of the quaker movement in England. The
purpose of early quaker writings not literary. George Fox's
Journal. Thomas Ellwood's History of his Life. Other quaker
journals and memoirs. William Penn, and his No Cross No
Crown. Isaac and Mary Penington. James Nayler. Early
attacks upon the quakers, and their replies. Samuel Fisher.
Barclay's Apology. More purely literary efforts: Penn's Some
Fruits of Solitude. Ellwood's Collection of Poems on Various
Subjects. Mary Mollineux's Fruits of Retirement
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CHAPTER V
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. I
By Professor FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania
Players and plays after the closing of the theatres. Drolls. Relaxation
of the laws against dramatic entertainments towards the close of
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate. Sir William D'Avenant's enter-
tainments: The Siege of Rhodes. Dramatic companies formed
immediately before the restoration. The king's and the duke of
York's companies 'created' after it. Thomas Killigrow's and Sir
William D'Avenant's later plays. Old masterpieces revived.
Comedies reflecting the political reaction: The Rump and Cutter
of Coleman Street. Tatham. John Wilson. Stapylton. The
duke of Newcastle. Early Spanish influences in English drama.
Spanish personages in English plays. The indebtedness of Beau-
mont and Fletcher, and of other dramatists, before and after the
restoration, to Spanish novels, and to Spanish plays, examined and
summarised. Influence of French literature on the restoration
drama. Molière and restoration comedy. Influence of French
opera. Etherege and his place in the history of restoration drama.
Sir Charles Sedley. Lacy. Aphra Behn. Wycherley. The
Plain Dealer .
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THE RESTORATION DRAMA. II
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By CHARLES WAIBLEY, M. A. , Honorary Fellow of Jesus College
Congreve. The Old Bachelor. The Double-Dealer. Love for Love.
The Mourning Bride. The Way of the World. Congreve and
the comedy of manners. His comic art. His diction. His friends
and way of life. Vanbrugh's life and character. The Relapse.
The Provok'd Wife. The Confederacy. Vanbragh and Perrault.
Earlier attacks in this period on the stage: Rymer's Short View
of Tragedy. Jeremy Collier's Short View. Its invective and its
fallacies. Replies to Collier by Vanbrugh, Farquhar, Dryden,
D'Urfey and Dennis. Farquhar as a comic dramatist. Love and
a Bottle; A Constant Couple; The Recruiting Officer; the
Beaux. Stratagem. Shadwell. D'Urfey. Colley Cibber's earlier
plays. His Apology for his Life.
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CHAPTER VII
THE RESTORATION DRAMA. III
By A. T. BARTHOLOMEW, M. A. , Peterhouse, and of the
University Library
Characteristics of lesser restoration tragedy. Publio interest in
acting. The operatio element. The heroio play. Fresh influence
on restoration tragedy. Translations of Corneille. Influence of
Racine. Revived influence of earlier English work. Otway and
his career as a dramatist. The Orphan and Venice Preserv'd.
Their enduring popularity. Nathaniel Lee. Characteristics of
his plays. The Rival Queens, Crowne. Sir Courtly Nice.
His tragedies. Southerne. The Fatal Marriage and Oroonoko.
Settle. Dennis. Banks. Hughes. Lansdowne. Ravenscroft.
Nicholas Rowe as a link between the later restoration drama and
that of the Augustan age. The Fair Penitent.
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CHAPTER VIII
THE COURT POETS
By CHARLES WHIBLEY, M. A.
The lives and writings of the court poets as a protest against the
puritan domination. The circle of Whitehall. The pranks of the
wits. The court poets as men of action: Rochester, Buckhurst
and Mulgrave. The mark of the amateur on their writings.
Dryden's flattery of them. Rochester's life and character. His
quarrel with Mulgrave and Dryden. Rochester as a satirist: The
Satire against Mankind. Sir Charles Sedley. His songs. Buck-
hurst: To all you Ladies now at Land. Mulgrave's Essay upon
Poetry. Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse
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THE PROSODY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M. A, F. B. A. , LL. D. , D. Litt.
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The Spenserian era of English versification. Loss of elasticity and
diversity. Variations of the iambio line. Insufficient understand-
ing as to equivalence in feet. Decline of blank verse. The
redundant syllable and other means of varying the measure. "The
battle of the couplets’: Waller and Cowley.
