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EXAM - English literature 2

and conquest. Sharp drop in quality and quanitity in 1680s, in 1690s again William Congreve’s „Love for Love” and „The Way of the World”. Were softer and more middle-class, different from earlier aristocratic extravaganza, aimed wider audience. Strong middle-class element, to women, war between sexes from intrigue into marriage, marital relations. Sexual explicitness encouraged by Charles II and by the rakish aristocrathic ethos of his court. Socially diverse audience. Crowded and bustling plots, introduction of first professional actresses, rise of first celebrity actors. Plays of Etheridge and Wycherley ar far more characteristic of the hybrid, symmetrical, sexual comedy popular in the reign of Charles II. Dryden: Sir George Etheridge: Man of Mode – the Earl of Rochester as a noisy, witty, intellectual, and sexually irresistible aristocrat. The Comical Revenge: or Love in a Tub