Lec 6 🛑

• One of Dryden’s best heroic plays is? The Conquest of Granada
• WILLIAM WYCHERLEY was a satirical dramatist
• Who wrote a well-known diary?

  SAMUEL PEPYS
• Restoration: the period after the restoration, or return to rule by kings, in 1660 after twenty years of rule by Parliament.
• The plays are written in heroic couplets, a form of metre perfected by?

  JOHN DRYDEN
• A new kind of comedy appeared at the end of this century, known as?

  the Comedy of Manners
• the Comedy of Manners describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the restoration period
• what was the first comedy of William Congreve?

  The old Bachelor
• what is another of dryden's better heroic plays?

  Aurengzebe
• a kind of play is hard and bright, witty and heartless?

  the Comedy of Manners.
• who was a better critic than most poets?

  John Dryden
• who wrote a well known diary?

  Samuel Pepys