Both novelist and dramatist, she was one of the first female author to make her living with her pen.
Who is Aphra Behn?
100
One of two types of drama that developed during the Restoration.
What is Heroic Drama or Comedy of Manners?
100
This person's attack on the public theaters spurred the development of Sentimental Comedy.
Who is Jeremy Collier?
100
"Mr. _____ has been your God almighty long enough."
What is The Man of Mode?
100
1660-1798 (though the latter date sometimes varies)
What is The Long Eighteenth Century?
200
This author was read by and influenced Jane Austen.
Who is Frances Burney?
200
Spurring an emotional response is this genre's end game.
What is Sentimental Comedy?
200
A contempt for morality and religion and the view that humanity is naturally depraved.
What is libertinism?
200
"For I ne'er can be conquered but by love, and you do all for duty."
What is All for Love?
200
Good bye, James II, hello, William and Mary.
What is the Glorious or Bloodless Revolution?
300
A key figure in the development of the periodical essay and Sentimental Comedy.
Who is Richard Steele?
300
The masquerade figures prominently in this work--as does carnival.
What is The Rover?
300
The re-opening of the public theaters following the Restoration led to some significant developments.
What are women actors, changeable scenery, a two-company system, redesigned theater, new dramatic types, etc.?
300
"But when I find, by your writings, that your virtue is but suitably rewarded, it will be not only a good excuse for me, but for him, and make me love you."
What is Pamela?
300
1707, or the Act that created Great Britain.
What is the Act of Union?
400
This author's main character was labeled a gold-digging hypocrite by the author's critics.
Who is Samuel Richardson?
400
Vicariousness and contemporaneity.
What are characteristics of the eighteenth-century novel?
400
The idea that women were sequestered from public life in the eighteenth century.
What is the domestic thesis?
400
"He took all opportunities to ingratiate himself with madam by . . . spiritualized flattery. . . ."
What is "The Story of the Methodist-lady"?
400
More readers reading, the proliferation of print, and the primacy of the individual, among other factors, created a cultural climate receptive to this literary type in the eighteenth century.
What is the novel?
500
Playwright, poet, and literary critic. He often included critical prefaces with his published works. Poet laureate under Charles I.
Who is Dryden?
500
Of this play, Samuel Johnson said, "I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy--making an audience merry."
What is She Stoops to Conquer?
500
One of the more significant religious developments of the eighteenth century.
What is Methodism?
500
"Because your virtue is your greatest affectation, madam."
What is The Country Wife?
500
To delight and instruct.
What is the literary maxim of the Long Eighteenth Century?