EXAM - English literature 2
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
William Wycherley: The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife
William Congreve: The Old Batchelour, The Doubl-Dealer, Love for Love
15. The impact of Newton and the principles of natural philosophy on 17th-18th century poetry
and prose
Bacon’s method: inductive reasoning based on observation and exeriment.
Natural philosophy: understanding Nature. All beliefs and knowledge subjected to a rational examination
based on the evidence of fact as supported by the senses. Mathematical methods. Universe as great
machine. God’s beneficence