The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785) (jan 1, 1600 – jan 1, 1785)
Description:
Subdivided in ages, the Neoclassical period includes The Restoration (1660–1700), seen mostly in theaters (William Congreve and John Dryden's comedies playwrights, and Samuel Butler's, John Bunyan's, and John Locke's satire) as a response to the puritanical age; The Augustan Age (1700–1745), the time of Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who challenged the stereotypically female roles; and The Age of Sensibility or the Age of Johnson (1745–1785), where neoclassicism and the enlightement were shown in the works of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, Samuel Johnson and Thomas Percy, among others.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1600
jan 1, 1785
~ 185 years