One of the characteristic genres of the time would be the comedy of customs that developed vertiginously with the reopening of the theaters. The preferences had changed and themes were demanded contrary to the Golden Age of English theater. Now the works are mainly in prose, although with verses in verse (in love scenes) and the arguments become complex with double or triple plot.
In the plots, the behavior of society, especially of the upper classes, is represented and criticized. The tone becomes ingenious and cynical in its vision of human nature, satirical, amoral, spicy and always on the verge of laughter. The dramatists receive hard attacks for frivolity, blasphemy and immorality, for all of this, the respectable citizens avoid attending the theaters. The Restoration is known by its licenses (The Origins of the English Novel, 136), in which the own monarch Charles II is, a man interested in the progress of the arts and the sciences, participant of the libertine customs of his time. Thanks to the king who liked to attend the theater, and not that …show more content…
In this time there are different theater plays, short-fictions and works like Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684). It is an epistolary work that has a pioneering value in regard to its dating and content (which faced in politics the Whigs with the Tories). Behn applies a style in the novel preached by Bacon or Hobbes in which an ideology of transparency and clarity prevails in the text.
The genre of the epistolary novel has a starting point in Aphra Behn and in the years of the three publications of her novel Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684, 1685, 1687). Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos in “Diarios y cartas del siglo XVII”. Estudios Literarios Ingleses: La Restauración (1660-1700) explains how diaries and letters have their own stylistic value (both individually and at a generic
In the plots, the behavior of society, especially of the upper classes, is represented and criticized. The tone becomes ingenious and cynical in its vision of human nature, satirical, amoral, spicy and always on the verge of laughter. The dramatists receive hard attacks for frivolity, blasphemy and immorality, for all of this, the respectable citizens avoid attending the theaters. The Restoration is known by its licenses (The Origins of the English Novel, 136), in which the own monarch Charles II is, a man interested in the progress of the arts and the sciences, participant of the libertine customs of his time. Thanks to the king who liked to attend the theater, and not that …show more content…
In this time there are different theater plays, short-fictions and works like Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684). It is an epistolary work that has a pioneering value in regard to its dating and content (which faced in politics the Whigs with the Tories). Behn applies a style in the novel preached by Bacon or Hobbes in which an ideology of transparency and clarity prevails in the text.
The genre of the epistolary novel has a starting point in Aphra Behn and in the years of the three publications of her novel Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684, 1685, 1687). Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos in “Diarios y cartas del siglo XVII”. Estudios Literarios Ingleses: La Restauración (1660-1700) explains how diaries and letters have their own stylistic value (both individually and at a generic