5. What is Butler's _Hudibras_? Explain its popularity. Read a passage and comment upon it, first, as satire; second, as a description of the Puritans. Is _Hudibras_ poetry? Why? 6. Name the philosophers and political economists of this period. Can you explain why Hobbes should call his work _Leviathan_? What important American documents show the influence of Locke? 7. Tell briefly the story of Pepys and his _Diary_. What light does the latter throw on the life of the age? Is the _Diary_ a work of literature? Why? CHRONOLOGY _Last Half of the Seventeenth Century_ ===================================================================== HISTORY | LITERATURE --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 1649. Execution of Charles I | | 1649-1660. Commonwealth | 1651. Hobbes's Leviathan | 1660. Restoration of Charles II | 1660-1669, Pepys's Diary | | 1662. Royal Society founded | | 1663. Butler's Hudibras 1665-1666. Plague and Fire of London | War with Holland | | 1667. Dutch fleet in the Thames | 1667. Milton's Paradise Lost. | Dryden's Annus Mirabilis | | 1663-1694. Dryden's dramas | | 1671. Paradise Regained | | 1678. Pilgrim's Progress | published 1680. Rise of Whigs and Tories | | 1681. Dryden's Absalom and | Achitophel 1685. James II | Monmouth's Rebellion | | 1687. Newton's Principia | proves the law of | gravitation 1688. English Revolution, William of | Orange called to throne | | 1689. Bill of Rights. Toleration Act | | 1690. Locke's Human | Understanding | 1698. Jeremy Collier attacks | stage | 1700. Death of Dryden ========================================================================= * * * * * CHAPTER IX EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800)