The dual presence of the Puritan heritage and of the immoral spirit of the Restoration in Congreve‘s "Way of the World"

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University College Cork (English Department), language: English, abstract: After theatres in England were reopened again in the course of the Restoration in 1660, after a period of eighteen years, the English theatre developed very much. Many plays were written for the two theatre companies in...