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31 Cards in this Set
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John Dryden |
Wrote "MacFlecknoe" in 1682 |
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Mac Flecknoe was |
A heroic couplet styled lampoon of Thomas Shadwell, likening it to an inauguration of overtaking the throne of Flecknoe, thought to be a mediocre poet. |
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Margaret Cavendish |
Duchess of Newcastle, writer of "The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World" in 1666 |
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The Restoration |
1660-1685ish. King Charles II. |
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Aphra Behn |
Wrote Oroonoko in 1688. |
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Oroonoko was |
A story of a slave Prince, Oroonoko, who fell in love with Imoinda. Were enslaved in Surinam. Main players of the play are Oroonoko, Imoinda, Aboan (Oroonoko's friend), Bannister (Kills Oroonoko), Onahal (old wife), Trefry (Plantation overseer), the old king. |
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Eliza Haywood |
Wrote Fantomina in 1725 |
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Fantomina |
Amatory Fiction whose characters were 'Fantomina' who takes the disguises as 'Celia', a maid, 'Mrs Bloomer' a widow, and 'Incognita' while fully concealed. Her lover is Beauplaisir. |
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William Wycherly |
Wrote "The Country Wife" in 1675 |
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The Country Wife |
Restoration Comedy featuring the rake Mr Horner, Sir Jasper and Lady Fidget, Mr Sparkish, Jack Pinchwife and Margery and Alethea Pinchwife and Frank Harcourt |
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Country Wife triangle |
Pinchwife, Margery and Mr Horner. Alathea, Sparkish and Harcourt |
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
Died at 33 of syphilis. Wrote "Imperfect Enjoyment" which was about premature ejaculation due to his lover being too beautiful. |
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The the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me, Imagined More Than Woman |
Published in 1688 by Behn. Features characters Cloris and Alexis, pastoral images of Hermes and Aphrodite |
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Gullivers Travels |
Jonothan Swift in 1726. Lilliputians, Houyhnhnms, Brobdingnagians. Lemuel Gulliver, Glumdalclitch, the emperor, king and queen, Master Houyhnhnm. |
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The Progress of Beauty |
Syphilitic prostitute poem in 1719 |
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Olaudah Equiano |
Wrote "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African" in 1789. autobiography. |
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John Cleland |
"Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" or Fanny Hill. 1748. Mrs Brown, Lord B, Polly Philips, Charles (who she marries), Mr H, Will, Mrs Cole, Emily, Harriet and Louisa |
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Castle of Otranto |
Horace Walpole in 1764 |
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Otranto |
Manfred, Lord of Otranto, Hippolita, Wife of Manfred, Conrad, their son who is killed by the helmet, Matilda, virginal daughter who loves Theodore, Isabella who was Conrad's fiancee, Theodore settles for Isabella after Matilda's death. |
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Northanger Abbey |
Jane Austen in 1798. Catherine Morland, her brother James, Henry and Eleanor Tilney, John and Isabella Thorpe and the Allens. |
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Allegory |
A narrative with a literal and a secondary meaning |
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ballad |
a folk song with a dramatic story based on legend or history |
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Archetype |
a recurring idea, symbol, motif, character or place |
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Comedy |
a drama which end happily |
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Enjambement |
"running-on" of the sense of poetry with no pause by punctuation or syntax |
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humors |
phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric, melancholic |
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Idyll |
traditionally a short pastoral poem thst idealized innocence and happiness |
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Libertine |
one devoid of most moral restraints. Notably put more onus on physical pleasure. |
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Tories |
Conservative party |
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Whigs |
Liberal party |
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Zeugma |
a figure of speech in which one word yokes two others in the same sentence |
