2. LATE 17TH C.
El 17-N empezamos con Oroonoko de Aphra Behn, y seguimos con Locke y Egerton.
Pronto terminamos el tema 2, con Locke y Newton, y pasamos al tema 3, tratando con Egerton, y con sus respectivas selecciones de textos. Egerton, Newton, y otros
autores están a caballo entre la última década del XVII y la
primera mitad del siglo XVIII.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
_____. Philosophiae Naturalis
Principia Mathematica. 1687. (Mathematical principles of natural
philosophy)
_____. Opticks. 1704.
_____. A
Treatise of the System of the World. 1728. (Written
c. 1685)
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NIVEL AVANZADO: Sir
Isaac Newton
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JOHN LOCKE
(1632-1704)
_____. (Anon.). Two Treatises of
Government. 1689.
_____.
(Signed). An
Essay Concerning
Human Understanding. 1689.
_____. Letters for Toleration.
1690-92.
_____.
Some Considerations of the
Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of
Money. 1691.
_____. Some Thoughts Concerning
Education. 1693.
_____. The Reasonableness of
Christianity. 1695.
Locke was an English empiricist
philosopher and political
theorist, b. Wrington, Somersetshire; Lecturer, physician and
philosopher; assistant to the First Earl of Shaftesbury, Whig political
theorist, exile in Netherlands 1682-88; customs official after
revolution; d Oates, Essex; influential theorist of knowledge and
economist; proto-liberal, defends political and religious toleration.
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-
John Locke
(Wikipedia).
Aquí
un pequeño vídeo sobre Locke (con una
errata, ojo: llaman a la
revolución de 1688 "la revolución de Cromwell" confundiéndola con la de
1642).
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
Antes del influyente Discurso
sobre la Tolerancia de Locke, hubo también precedentes. Aquí hay un breve "Discurso sobre la tolerancia" de William Drummond, poeta con el que empezamos este curso: A Discourse on Toleration
- Materiales sobre John
Locke
- Aquí hay algunos
títulos relativos al comienzo del periodismo en el siglo XVII.
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El 11-N trataremos de algunos dramaturgos de la Restauración, y más en detalle de Aphra Behn. Necesitaremos el texto de Oroonoko.
Aphra
Behn (1640-1689)
_____. The Forc’d Marriage.
Drama. 1670.
_____. The Amorous Prince.
Heroic drama. 1671.
_____. The Dutch Lover. Drama.
1672.
_____. The Town-Fop; or, Sir Timothy
Tawdry. Comedy. 1676.
_____. Abdelazer; or the Moor’s
Revenge. Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rover, or,
the Banish’t
Cavaliers. Comedy. 2 parts. 1677,
1681.
_____. Sir Patient Fancy.
Comedy. 1678.
_____. The Feigned Curtezans. Comedy.
1679.
_____. The Young King; or The
Mistake. Heroic drama. 1679.
_____. The City Heiress; or, Sir
Timothy Treat-All. Comedy. 1682.
_____. The Round-Heads: or, The Good
Old Cause. Satiric drama.
1682.
_____. The False Count; or, a New
Way to Play an Old Game. Farce. 1682.
_____. Love Letters between a
Nobleman and His Sister. Novel.
1684.
_____. The Lucky Chance; or , an
Alderman’s Bargain. Comedy. 1687.
_____. The Emperor of the Moon. Farce.
1687.
_____. Three Stories, viz. Oroonoko;
or, The Royal Slave; The Fair
Jilt, and Agnes de Castro. Novellas. 1688.
_____. The Widow Ranter.
Tragicomedy. 1689.
Oroonoko,
or The Royal Slave (Audiobook):
"Oroonoko, or The Royal
Slave
is a novel by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by
her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published
in English
to express sympathy for African slaves.
Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the
novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love
Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage
in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999).
Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as
Virginia Woolf noted in A Room of
One's Own
(1928): "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of
Aphra Behn, ... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their
minds."
(Summary by Elizabeth Klett)
- Some
further notes on
Aphra Behn.
- Music
for Aphra Behn's Abdelazer,
by Henry Purcell.
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
- An audio on Aphra Behn (In Our Time, BBC).
- A lecture on Oroonoko
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Some Restoration dramatists:
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT ( 1605-1668)
_____. The Wits. Comedy. c.
1633.
_____. Love and Honour.
Heroic play. 1634, pub. 1649. Revived 1661.
_____. Temple of Love.
Masque. Premiere performed by Queen Henrietta Maria and her ladies.
1635.
_____. Britannia Triumphans.
Masque. 1638.
_____. Salmacida Spolia.
Masque. 1640.
_____. Gondibert. Epic poem.
1650.
_____. The First Day’s Entertainment
at Rutland House.
_____. The Siege
of Rhodes. Operatic drama in two parts. Part 1 performed 1656,
1657.
_____. The Cruelty of the Spaniards
in Peru. Operatic drama. 1658.
_____. The History of Sir Francis
Drake. Operatic drama. 1659.
_____. The Law Against Lovers. Drama.1662.
(Based on Shakespeare’s Measure for
Measure and Much Ado About
Nothing).
_____. Macbeth. Operatic
adaptation. 1673.
_____. Playhouse to Be Let.
Adapted from Molière.
Davenant, William, and John Dryden. The
Tempest or The Enchanted Island. Operatic adaptation of
Shakespeare’s work. 1667.
Davenant
was a Royalist poet,
dramatist and dramatic producer; the son of an Oxford tavern-keeper,
godson and self-reputed illegitimate son of Shakespeare; st. All Saints
grammar school, Oxford, and Lincoln College, page to Frances Duchess of
Richmond, patronized by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke; court dramatist
and poet, laureate at the Queen’s wish 1638, named governor of the
King’s and Queen’s players at Drury Lane 1639; Cavalier activist,
imprisoned by Parliamentarians, escape to France, lieutenant-general in
the Earl of Newcastle’s army, knighted 1643 for service at the siege of
Gloucester, emissary between the King and Queen, l. Paris, Louvre,
projected colonist, imprisoned at Wight and the Tower of London,
seemingly protected by Milton, later repaid favour, released, organiser
of musical dramatic events, Theatre at Rutland House, Charterhouse
Yard, 1656-, reviver of drama after Puritan interruption; licensed
impresario after Restoration with the Duke’s Company, died insolvent,
buried at Westminster Abbey.
George Etherege (1634-1691)
_____. The Comical Revenge, or Love
in a
Tub. Comedy. 1664.
_____. She Wou'd if She Cou'd.
Comedy. 1668.
_____. The Man of
Mode, or, Sir
Fopling Flutter. 1676.
William Wycherley (1641-1715)
_____. Love in a Wood, or St.
James's Park.
Drama. 1671.
_____. The Gentleman Dancing-Master.
Comedy. 1672.
_____. The
Country Wife.
Comedy. 1675.
_____. The Plain
Dealer.
Comedy. 1676.
William Congreve (1670-1729)
_____. The Old Bachelor.
Comedy. 1693.
_____. Love for Love. Comedy.
1695.
_____. The Mourning Bride.
Tragedy. 1697.
_____. The Way of
the World.
Comedy. 1700.
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NIVEL
AVANZADO:
- the
plot of Congreve's The
Way of the World.
- Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
______. Shakespearean adaptations (Richard II, King Lear)
______. Dido and Aeneas. Opera with music by Henry
Purcell. 1689.
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Samuel
Butler (1613-1680)
_____.
Hudibras.
Burlesque epic. 3 parts. 1663, 1664, 1678.
_____.
Characters.
1667-9, pub. 1759. (A virtuoso, A hermetic philosopher, etc.)
_____.
The
Elephant in the Moon. Satire. 1759.
_____.
Satire
on the Royal Society. Satirical poem. 1759.
_____.
The
Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr Samuel Butler. 1759.
A burlesque dramatic satire against Dryden and the heroic plays: The Rehearsal, ascribed to the
Duke of Buckingham and Samuel Butler.
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10 nov.: trataremos de Rochester, Dryden, y seguidamente Aphra Behn y Locke.
Primero veremos a Rochester, Dryden, y otros dramaturgos de la Restauración. Id leyendo las selecciones de novelas que tenemos, que son algo largas, empezando por Oroonoko de Aphra Behn.
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
English man of letters, b. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire; st. Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; Parliamentarian protestant background, soon Anglican Royalist courtier, converted to catholicism 1686; successful playwright, Poet Laureate 1668; Historiographer 1670; Tory satirist and polemicist vs. Whigs; lost jobs in 1688 Revolution; then jacobite; neoclassical critic and translator; influential dramatist, poet and critic, d. London; buried at Westminster Abbey after some grotesque incidents.
_____. "A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland." 1659. Rev. version: "Heroic Stanzas Consecrated to the Memory of His Highness Oliver..."
_____. Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. Poem. 1660.
_____. To His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyrick on his Coronation. 1661.
_____. The Rival Ladies. Tragicomedy. 1664.
_____. The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Heroic drama. 1665.
_____. Annus Mirabilis, The Year of wonders, 1666. An Historical Poem: containing the Progress and various Successes of our Naval War with Holland, under the Conduct of His Highness Prince Rupert... And describing the Fire of London. 1667.
_____. The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island. 1667. (With William Davenant. Based on Shakespeare. Revised with music by Mattew Locke).
_____. Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay. 1668.
_____. Tyrannick love, or , The Royal Martyr. Heroic play 1669.
_____. Almanzor and Almahide, or The Conquest of Granada. Heroic play. 2 parts, 1669, 1670. Pub. 1672.
_____. An Evening's Love. Tragicomedy. 1671.
_____. Marriage à la Mode. Comedy 1672.
_____. Aureng-Zebe. Heroic play. 1676.
_____. All for Love; or, The World Well Lost. Tragedy. 1678.
_____. Mac-Flecknoe, or A Satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T. S. 1676, pub. 1682.
_____. The Spanish Fryar, or The Double Discovery. Tragicomedy. 1680.
_____. (Anon.) Absalom and Achitophel. (1st part). Satirical poem. 1681.
_____. The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. By the Author of Absalom and Achitophel. Poem. 1682.
_____. Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith. Poem. 1682.
_____. trans. of Boileau's Art Poétique. (With William Soames). 1683.
_____. To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew. Poem. 1686.
_____. The Hind and the Panther. A Poem . In Three Parts. 1687.
_____. "Song for St. Cecilia's Day." 1687. Set by Draghi in 1687.
______. Amphitryon. Comedy. 1690.
_____. Don Sebastian. Drama. 1690.
____. King Arthur or The British Worthy. Dramatic opera. Music by Purcell. 1691.
_____, trans. Aeneis. By Virgil. 1697. (Audiobook here)
_____, trans. Fables Ancient and Modern, Translated into Verse from Homer, Virgil, Boccacce, and Chaucer. 1699.
THE AGE OF DRYDEN: a video lecture (in Indian English)
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Dryden y la música
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THE
EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl
of Rochester, b. Ditchley, Oxfordshire, son of
the 1st Earl of Rochester; scandalous court wit under Charles II, rake
and hooligan; destroyed his health through drink and sex; atheist and
misanthropist converted to Christianity before his death, died in
London.
_____. "An Allusion to Horace." Satire.
_____. "Trial of the Poets for the Bays." Satire. Imitation of
Boileau.
_____. "Epistolary Letter to Lord Mulgrave." Satire.
_____. "A Satyre against Reason and
Mankind."
_____. "A Satyre on Charles II."
_____. "The Imperfect Enjoyment."
_____. "The Fall."
_____. "The Disabled Debauchee."
_____. Poems on Several Occasions...
1680.
_____. Valentinian.
Tragedy. 1685.
_____. Upon Nothing. 1711.
Esta
es la página de Rochester en Luminarium—con
obras, crítica, etc. Es
especialmente recomendable la Satire against Reason and Mankind. (Este
texto está mejor que el de las fotocopias). Sobre
Rochester y el teatro de la Restauración hay una película recomendable (The
Libertine). (The theatre scene) - (the Exclusion Crisis)
Unas
notas complementarias sobre Rochester.
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NIVEL
AVANZADO:
-
Upon Nothing:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53720/upon-nothing
and
commentary:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/247988#poem
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Dr Kat on Rochester (video lecture)
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Rochester and Restoration Drama
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PROSE WRITERS OF THE RESTORATION:
4 nov. - Veremos Pilgrim's Progress de John Bunyan.
EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON (1609-1674)
_____. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. 3 vols. Finished 1671-2. Pub. 1702-4.
_____. The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon. Written 1668-70. Pub. 1759.
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SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703)
_____. Diary. Written 1660-69. Deciphered by John Smith; pub. 1825-.
_____. Memories Relating to the State of the Royal Navy. 1690.
_____. Letters and Second Diary. 1932
_____. The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys. 1935.
Pepys was an English gentleman and politician, the author of a secret diary, unpublished and undecyphered until the 19th century; lower middle class Puritan background, Anglican; st. with a scholarship, social promotion, official at the Navy office during the Restoration; imprisoned during Popish Plot and after 1688 Revolution; reformer of the Navy office, member of the Royal Society.
JOHN EVELYN (1620-1706)
_____. Diary. Written 1641-. Ed. 1818.
_____. Liberty and Servitude. Treatise. 1649.
_____. A Character of England. 1659.
_____. Apology of the Royal Party. 1659.
_____. Fumifugium ot The Smoak of London Dissipated. Project. 1661.
_____. Tyrannus, or the Mode. Essay. 1661.
_____. Sculptura. Treatise. (Engraving). 1662.
_____. Kalendarium Hortense: or, Gard'ners Almanac.
_____. Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber. 1664.
_____. London Revived: Considerations for its Rebuilding in 1666.
_____. Terra, or A Philosophical Discourse of Earth. 1675.
_____. The Life of Mrs. Godolphin. 1847.
Evelyn was an English royalist gentleman who travelled in Europe during the 1640s; polygraph, virtuoso and member of the Royal Society, friend of Pepys.
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NIVEL AVANZADO
John Evelyn's early modern ecologism: a lecture at the Royal Society, on Sylva and the idea of sustainability: https://royalsociety.org/events/2013/sustainability/
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JOHN BUNYAN (Bedfordshire, 1628-London 1688)
_____. Some Gospel Truths Opened. 1656.
_____. A Few Sighs from Hell. 1658.
_____. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Spiritual autobiography. 1666.
_____. The Pilgrim's Progress. Allegorical fiction. Part I, 1678. Part II, 1684.
_____. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive. Allegorical fiction. 1680.
_____. The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus. Allegorical fiction. 1682.
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John Bunyan (NIVEL AVANZADO)
By the Sword Divided: The Mailed Fist (1657)
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Timeline
of
the Restoration and Augustan
period
Puritan rule under Oliver Cromwell during the 1650s.
Lord
Protector. Protestant politics during the Interregnum.
THE RESTORATION. Restoration of Charles II, 1660. Act of Oblivion.
Charles and Catherine
of Braganza will have no children, but Charles will have many children
by his mistresses. His brother, the Duke of York, will be the inheritor
(problem: he was a Catholic).
1660s- The Royal Society, first scientific society.
1665-6 – Great Plague and Great Fire of London
1666, 1670. Dutch wars. Secret treaty of Charles with the French
against the Dutch.
1672. Declaration of Indulgence towards Catholics and Nonconformists
—but 1673 Test Act excludes Catholics from public office.
1677 William of Orange marries Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York.
1678 Popish plot scandal fostered by anti-Catholics (Titus Oates).
1680 Exclusion Crisis. The growth of party politics (Whigs / Tories).
1683 Rye House Plot fails to assassinate Charles and James.
1684 Charles' son Monmouth implicated in plot.
1685. Death of Charles, accesion of James II. Louis XIV allows
persecution of French protestants.
1687. James's Declaration of Indulgence. The Monmouth rebellion.
1688. The Glorious Revolution
and Dutch invasion (Audio).
A Whig revolution. James escapes to France but lands with
an army in Ireland. Defeated by William III at the Battle of the Boyne
(1690) and
Aughrim (1691). William and Mary rule—we'll use "the Augustan Age" for
the last decade of the 18th and the 1st half of the 18th c.
1689. Bill of Rights. Toleration of Nonconformists.
1693-94: National Debt and Bank of England established.
1702. William dies. Anne, daughter of James II, reigns to 1714 (Last of
the Stuart monarchs).
18th century: The growth of commerce & the American colonies. East
India company begins expansion in India.
1704-6. Victories of Marlborough.
1707: Act of Union (Union of Parliaments): United Kingdom of Great
Britain (Union with Ireland: 1800)
1710: Fall of the Whigs. Act of Copyright.
1714-1727: The House of Hanover.
Reign of George I, grandson of James I. More Georges: George II
reigns1727-1760. George
III 1760-1820.
1715: Fall of the Tories. Jacobite rising defeated. (Again in 1745,
last Jacobite rising coming from Scotland – as told in Scott's Waverley).
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Wrightson
on the Restoration:
NIVEL AVANZADO: The historical context of the Glorious revolution.
In
Our Time: The
Restoration
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