Fiction/ Novels

1. English playwrite/ Preacher
2. born in Elstow, England, in November 1628
3. He joined the parliamentarian army at the age of 16 to fight for the Round heads against the Cavaliers.
4. Bunyan was arrested for his beliefs during the ‘great persecution’ of 1660-1690.
5. It was in the prison that Bunyan wrote “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (1678) that blends the facts with fiction.
6. Bunyan died of severe cold in 1688
7. Works:
   1. A Few Signs from Hell or the Groans of a Damned Soul (1658)
   2. The Holy City or the New Jerusalem (1666)
   3. Saved by Grace 1675
   4. The Strait Gate, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven (1676)
   5. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
   6. The Life and Death of Mr Badman (1680)
   7. The Holy War (1682)
   8. Grace Abounding (1666)

1. First professional woman writer in England.
2. born in Wye in 1640. Had a Catholic upbringing.
3. Dramatist, fiction writer and poet, died in 16th April, 1689.
4. Works:
   1. Plays:
      1. The Forced Marriage (1670)
      2. The Amorous Prince (1671)
      3. The Dutch Lover (1673)
      4. Abdelazer (1676)
      5. The Town Fop (1676)
      6. The Rover, part I (1677), part II (1681)
      7. Sir Patient Fancy 91678)
      8. The Feigned Courtesans (1679)
      9. The Young King (1679)
      10. The Roundheads 91681)
      11. the City Heiress (1682)
      12. like Father, Like Son (1682)
      13. The Emperor of the Moon (1687)
   2. Novels:
      1. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)
         1. three volumes, a type of epistolary novel.
         2. The novel is loosely associated with the affairs between Ford, Lord Grey of Werke and his wife’s sister Lady Henrietta Berkeley, a scandal  that broke in London in 1682.
      2. Oroonoko (1688)
         1. Plot:
            1. It is a story about African prince Oroonoko, who falls in love with a young woman Imoinda.
            2. When their love is discovered, Imoinda is sold into slavery to Suriname.
            3. One day, Oroonoko, who is a slave owner himself, is lured by the captain of an English ship and taken as a slave to Guiana. Here, he is united his beloved.
            4. He tries to attain freedom but is caught  and badly beaten. Realising that there is no way out, he kills his love and their unborn child. As soon as he is about to kill himself, he is captured and later executed.
         2. it is termed as a ground breaking novel for the depiction of istitution of slavery as cruel and inhuman.
   3. Short Stories:
      1. The History of the Nun or The Fair Vow Breaker (1688)
         1. Tells about an anti-heroine Isabella whose reputation for virtuousness and religious devotion ironically becomes her motivation for murder.
         2. Represents social psychology and a surprising dark amusing plot.
      2. The Dumb Virgin: or, The Force of Imagination (1700)
         1. A story of brother sister whose defect both in body and fate are engendered by their mother’s failure to confirm to the correct paradigm of maternal behaviour.
   4. Poetry: Poems Upon Several Occasions. With A Voyage to her Island of Love (1684)
   5. Lycidus: or The Lover in Fashion (1688)

1. born in Yorksire, England in 1670.
2. Educated in Kilkenny and at Trinity College Dublin with Jonathan Swift.
3. Mostly known for his satire
4. Works:
   1. The Old Bachelor (1693)
   2. The Double Dealer (1694)
   3. Love for Love (1695)
   4. The Mourning Bride (1697)
   5. The Way of the World (1700)
   6. Incognito (1692)
      1. Congreve seems to have taken its plot from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour Lost.
      2. The story is somewhat rigid mistaken identity and mass marriage with a Masquerade in between but the pleasure is in detail.