BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 17th CENTURY –Blamiers
M.
Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—
Approaches--Unit
II
Summary
by Dr. S. Sreekumar
Unit II The
Seventeenth Century II: Rymer to Dennis
The
public who came to witness the Restoration Dramas were very different from
those who went to the Globe to see the plays of Shakespeare. The Restoration
theatre provided amusement for a leisured and degenerate society. Puritans
shunned it. Respectable Londoners seldom visited it.
