[English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History by Henry Coppee]@TWC D-Link bookEnglish Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History
CHAPTER XXIII
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CHAPTER XXIII.
THE DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION.
The License of the Age.Dryden.Wycherley.Congreve.
Vanbrugh.
Farquhar.Etherege.Tragedy.Otway.Rowe.
Lee.
Southern.
THE LICENSE OF THE AGE.
There is no portion of the literature of this period which so fully represents and explains the social history of the age as the drama.
With the restoration of Charles it returned to England, after a time in which the chief faults had been too great rigor in morals.
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