17th Century ( 1625 – 1700) The Cavaliers & Puritans

17th Century(1625 – 1700)

TheCavaliers

&Puritans

Turmoil Religious & Political

Queen Elizabeth dies 1603King James 1603-1625

King Charles 1625-1649Oliver Cromwell 1642 - 1660King Charles II 1660 - 1685“GLORIOUS REVOLUTION”

The ControversyRoyal family are Anglican (Catholic sympathizers)

WHILEWHILECommon people are

Protestant sympathizers

Divine Right of Kings

King is Head of Church & State

King JamesNot a picture of health…

-- crippling arthritis-- weak limbs-- colic (digestion problems)-- gout-- difficulty walking -- tongue problems

After numerous attempts on his life, he required constant care.

Invented British flag -- combined England's red cross of St. George with Scotland's white cross of St. Andrew.

Religious Non-Conformity

Puritans/SeparatistsCongregationists/Presbyterians

Church government stylescongregation vs. bishop

liturgical vs. non-liturgical

King James & the Non-conformists

“I shall make them conform themselves

or I will harry them out of the land, or else…do

worse.”

Angers Parliament Angers Puritans Private arrests, trials Catholicize worship (High Church) Last straw - Presbyterian Scots & the new liturgy!

King Charles

CIVIL WAR Roundheads = Puritans Cavaliers = Royal Loyalists Council of State - backed by revolutionary officers Cromwell assumes control as “Lord Protector of the Commonwealth”

The Bloody Revolution!King Charles beheaded in 1649!

Cromwell’s RulePuritan strictness

Military powerSuppression of

theatre& other frivolous

activitiesTyrant/dictator

The Restoration Cromwell’s death dooms Puritan rule Parliament asks King Charles II back from exile in Holland People revolted vs. Puritan strictness

Hatred of Cromwell

Charles II Catholic sympathizer Repressive religious measures Allied to Catholic France Discontent grows vs. monarchy

James II Catholic sympathizer appoints Catholics to influential govt & military posts Vatican reps in court religious persecution of Scottish Protestants

Glorious Revolution(Bloodless Revolution)

William of Orange (Protestant) Mary (James II’s daughter) Parliament asks them to rule in place of James II New limited monarchy

London grows to 600,000!

Historic Events

Great Plague in London

1665-------------68,000

die!

Historic Events

Great Fire of London - 1666(Christopher Wren - rebuilder)

Cavalier Poets-- Lovelace, Suckling, Herrick --

Anglican supporters of the King topics of wine, women, war & love simple & easy to understand avoided religious topics witty & satirical

“Tribe of Ben”

Metaphysical Poets-- Donne, Herbert, later Herrick --

Protestant Not happy with the King religious & philosophical topics challenging, demanding, symbolic metaphysical conceits – unusual metaphors

John Milton Paradise Lost (over 10,000 lines) Puritan look at fall into sin “justify the ways of God to man” great English classic

17th Century Poetry

17th Century Poetry John Dryden Poet laureate of Charles II Neoclassic style (odes & satires) literary criticism essayist - “father of modern prose” translator debater

17th Century Drama

He was not of an age, but for all time. -- To the Memory of Shakespeare

Ben Jonson Comedies - Satiric Comedy - Tragicomedy - Comedy of Manners Puritans close theater Actresses acceptable by

end of century

17th Century Prose Scientific writing Hobbes & Locke – Philosophical writing Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler John Dryden – Literary criticism Samuel Pepys – The Diary (in code) John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress King James Bible

John BunyanOur Father which in heaven art,Thy name be always hallowed;Thy kingdom come, thy will be done;Thy heavenly path be followedBy us on earth as 'tis with thee,We humbly pray;And let our bread us given be,From day to day.Forgive our debts as we forgiveThose that to us indebted are:Into temptation lead us not,But save us from the wicked snare.The kingdom's thine, the power too,We thee adore;The glory also shall be thineFor evermore.

Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Written in prison Main character is Christian Allegory of Christian Life “Last great Christian classic”

Samuel Pepys –Diary Writer

June 15th

The Duke of Yorke not yet come to town. The town grows very sickly, and people to be afeared of it - there dying this last wek of the plague 112, from 43 the week before - whereof, one in Fanchurch-street and one in Broadstreete by the Treasurer's office.

Watch for . . . Spelling becoming set (1st dictionaries) Satire - moral writing to expose evil Heroic couplet in poetry Rise of comedies Shakespeare considered “rough,

uncultured” - not often performed