English Restoration - Upstate NY

Question

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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Northern California	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	11.11	100%	0%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	17%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	8.89	89%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	33%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	10	11.00	100%	0%	10%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	0%	29%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	14.62	92%	23%	31%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	13.75	88%	25%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Cornell A	ESF	10	10
Cornell D	RIT B	10	10
Cornell C	RIT A	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	10	10
Cornell B	Binghamton C	10	10