The Provoked Wife. Find out more. We use cookies on this website. By using this site you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device. Charles escaped to France and later lived in exile in Germany and then in the Spanish Netherlands. In , in what is known as the English Restoration, General George Monck met with Charles and arranged to restore him in exchange for a promise of amnesty and religious toleration for his former enemies.
On May 25, , Charles landed at Dover and four days later entered London in triumph. It was his 30th birthday, and London rejoiced at his arrival.
In the first year of the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason and his body disinterred from its tomb in Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On the evening of May 25, , white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kills George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes. The death, recorded by bystanders, touched off what may have been the largest protest movement in U.
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The Articles of Confederation, ratified several months before Swanson, a beer distributor and former U. It was, to its own people, an age dominated only by the king, and not by any single genius. Throughout the period, the lyric, ariel, historical, and epic poem were being developed. Prose in the Restoration period is dominated by Christian religious writing, but the Restoration also saw the beginnings of two genres that would dominate later periods: fiction and journalism.
Religious writing often strayed into political and economic writing, just as political and economic writing implied or directly addressed religion.
The return of the stage-struck Charles II to power in was a major event in English theatre history. Traditionally, Restoration plays have been studied by genre rather than chronology, more or less as if they were all contemporary, but scholars today insist on the rapid evolvement of drama in the period and on the importance of social and political factors affecting it. The influence of theatre company competition and playhouse economics is also acknowledged, as is the significance of the appearance of the first professional actresses.
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