Scarica restaurazione e letteratura augustea e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Performer Heritage.blu Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton 2018 Restoration and Augustan literature Bartholomew Dandridge, A Lady reading Belinda beside a fountain, 1745, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Restoration and Augustan literature • Metaphysical conceits replaced by order and clarity. • The real world became the main object of interest. Restoration poetry was satiric due to John Dryden was the main poet of the age. 1. Restoration poetry Performer Heritage the study and translation of the classic writers like Horace, Martial and Juvenal. Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 4. The structure of the theatre The Elizabethan playhouse The Restoration playhouse • Unroofed • Lit by daylight • No curtain • Absence of any scenery effects • Roofed • Artificially lit with candles • A drop curtain • Painted movable scenery • Footlights Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 5. Acting Elizabethan Age • Female roles played by boys • Actors linked by cooperative sharing bonds Restoration Age • First professional actresses • Actors and actresses tied to the theatre by a contract • Both actors and actresses became public personalities Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 6. The Elizabethan and the Restoration theatre Elizabethan theatre Restoration theatre Main themes • universal themes • analysis of a contradictory reality • vices and follies of the upper- middle class Characters • kings, princes, warriors • ordinary people Audience • drawn from all social classes • literate upper classes Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage The 18th-century key concepts were: • political stability; • individualism; • liberal thought and free will; • optimism; • reason and common sense; • desire for balance, symmetry, refinement. 9. The Augustan Age Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 10. The reading public The increase of the reading public in the Augustan Age was due to The growing importance of the middle class The individual’s trust in his own abilities The practice of reason and self-analysis Most readers were middle-class women They used to borrow books from circulating libraries Coffee-houses allowed the circulation of news and opinions Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 10. The reading public Where the belief in the power of reason and the individual’s trust in his own abilities found expression ‘The Tatler’and‘The Spectator’ the first English newspapers Their style simple, lively Their aim didactic The interest of middle-class people in literature gave rise to journalism the novel Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 13. The characters The hero A bourgeois, self-made, self-reliant man The reader is expected to sympathise with him The mouthpiece of the author They struggle for survival or social success have contemporary names and surnames Robinson Crusoe All the characters Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 14. The narrative technique 1ST-PERSON NARRATOR 3RD-PERSON NARRATOR PATTERN Daniel Defoe Fictional autobiographies Samuel Richardson Letters exchanged between the main characters Henry Fielding The mock-epic style Restoration and Augustan literature Performer Heritage 15. The setting • Chronological sequence of events. • References to particular times of the year or of the day. I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York Robinson Crusoe • Specific references to names of countries, towns and streets. • Detailed descriptions of interiors to make the narrative more realistic.
