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The Restoration plays that have best retained the interest of producers and audiences today are the comedies, such as George Etherege's The Man of Mode ( 1676 ), William Wycherley's The Country Wife ( 1676 ), John Vanbrugh's The Relapse ( 1696 ), and William Congreve's The Way of the World ( 1700 ).
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The re-opened theatres performed many of the plays of the previous era, though often in adapted forms ; new genres of Restoration comedy and spectacle soon evolved, giving English theatre of the later seventeenth century its distinctive character.
Julius Caesar was one of the very few Shakespearean plays that was not adapted during the Restoration period or the eighteenth century.
During the Restoration, Measure was one of many Shakespearean plays adapted to the tastes of a new audience.
* La Comédie humaine, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays by Honoré de Balzac, set during the Restoration and the July Monarchy
The Winter's Tale was not revived during the Restoration, unlike many other Shakespearean plays.
In his career as a playwright, he offended many sections of Restoration and 18th century society, not only by the sexual explicitness of his plays, but also by their messages in defence of women's rights in marriage.
The King's Company and the Duke's Company vied with one another for audience favour, for popular actors, and for new plays, and in this hectic climate the new genres of heroic drama, pathetic drama, and Restoration comedy were born and flourished.
Daringly suggestive comedy scenes involving women became especially common, although of course Restoration actresses were, just like male actors, expected to do justice to all kinds and moods of plays.
Even though the " Restoration drama " unit taught to college students is likely to be telescoped in a way that makes the plays all sound contemporary, scholars now have a strong sense of the rapid evolution of English drama over these forty years and of its social and political causes.
The drama of the 1660s and 1670s was vitalised by the competition between the two patent companies created at the Restoration, as well as by the personal interest of Charles II, and the comic playwrights rose to the demand for new plays.
These included many plays of the Restoration era.
Ogai Mori, along with many other historical figures from the Meiji Restoration, plays a significant part in the fantasy / historical fiction novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata.
Buckingham also published two adapted plays: a version of John Fletcher's The Chances ( 1682 ) and The Restoration or Right will take place, from Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster ( publ.
William Wycherley ( c. 1640 – 31 December 1715 ) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
Many critics through the centuries have acknowledged its linguistic energy and wit, including even Victorians such as Leigh Hunt, who praised its literary quality in a selection of Restoration plays that he published in 1840 ( itself a daring undertaking, for reputedly " obscene " plays that had been long out of print ).
These plays are not representative of the average Restoration comedy, however.
When the theaters reopened during the Restoration, a handful of Brome's plays were performed and republished ; the most successful was A Jovial Crew, which was acted widely and printed in 1661, 1684, and 1708.
He was interested in the theater of the seventeenth century, particularly that of the English Restoration, and edited the plays of Aphra Behn, John Dryden, William Congreve, among others.
Both plays have the three aspects of Restoration literature, and “ Behn was certainly familiar with both plays ”, influencing her writing as seen in the opening of the tale.
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Eighteenth-century editions of The Rehearsal contained a Key that identified the Restoration plays to which Buckingham and his collaborators allude in their work.
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The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.
Others, including the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Churches of Christ, and the Christian churches and churches of Christ, have their roots in the contemporaneous Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, which was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Whilst the Restoration Movement accepted Thomas's right to have his own beliefs, when he started preaching that they were essential to salvation, it led to a fierce series of debates with a notable leader of the movement, Alexander Campbell.
Some of the best known paintings of the museum have been digitized by the French Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.
Of course, I'll have to pretend I like Restoration "
Chauvin's distinguished record of service and his love and devotion for Napoleon, which endured despite the price he willingly paid for them, is said to have earned him only ridicule and derision in Restoration France, when Bonapartism became increasingly unpopular.
The system of odd numbered rounds is said to have been originated by Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economising on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired.
* Restoration Branches, independent organizations that have left the Community of Christ
At the Restoration of the king in 1660 he was favourably received at court, and in 1665 would have received the provostship of Eton College, if he would have taken orders ; but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.
This, among the earliest of Restoration adaptations, appears not to have succeeded on stage.
Two days after the departure of the Simons the prisoner is said by the Restoration historians to have been put in a dark room which was barricaded like the cage of a wild animal.
It was also acknowledged that Louis XVIII's government might have made mistakes during the First Restoration.
Restoration of the park was supported, substantially, by the Rockefeller family, particularly John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Regrowth was mostly allowed to occur naturally and the fire has been suggested to have actually enhanced the beauty of the park, adding diversity to tree populations and depth to its scenery.
The Protectorate, which followed the Commonwealth and preceded the English Restoration, might have continued if Oliver Cromwell's son Richard, who was made Lord Protector on his father's death, had been capable of carrying on his father's policies.
Louis Philippe was the eldest of three sons and a daughter, a family that was to have erratic fortunes from the beginning of the French Revolution to the Bourbon Restoration.
The failure of the Kenmu Restoration have rendered the court weakened and subservient, a situation the Ashikaga Takauji reinforced by establishing within close proximity of the emperor at Kyoto.
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was signed into law, but the same divisive politics that had affected the region for the previous 50 years have compromised the plan.
In the English theatre, Restoration playwrights such as William Wycherly and William Congreve would have been familiar with them.
He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse ( 1696 ) and The Provoked Wife ( 1697 ), which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy.
He joined Fairfax in his march against General John Lambert in January 1660, and afterwards claimed to have gained Fairfax to the cause of the Restoration.
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