During this literary period, the first English actress, Margaret Hughes, made her debut on stage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this literary period that began after the repeal of Puritan prohibitions on theater. Playwrights such as William Wycherley and William Congreve wrote licentious comedies during this period.
ANSWER: English Restoration
[10h] This Restoration playwright authored The Rover, a play about exiled English royalists in Naples. This female playwright also wrote one of the earliest English-language novels, Oroonoko, about a royal slave in Suriname.
ANSWER: Aphra Behn
[10e] Congreve wrote a play titled for this thing’s “Way” about Millimant and Mirabel’s attempts to marry. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a speech on the Seven Ages of Man opens by declaring “all the [this thing]’s a stage.”
ANSWER: world [accept “all the world’s a stage” or The Way of the World]
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