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With the reopening of the theatres after the Restoration, women were for the first time allowed to act on the stage. Previously, female roles had been performed by young boys. The advent of women actors opened up a world of titillation and scandal, appreciated by audiences from all levels of society; from merchants to nobles and even King Charles II himself. It also brought about a variety of changes to the theatre.
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Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose restoration to the throne in 1660 marked the end of republican rule in England.
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people were dying everyday and was a big setback in history
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The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II. At one o'clock in the morning, a servant woke to find the house aflame, and the baker and his family escaped, but a fear-struck maid perished in the blaze.
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To end the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
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The Raoe of the Lock is published
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the english people would go and treat all the irish poorly
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Candide is published
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he is known as the king who lost the american colonies becuase he could not stop them from leaving and becuase they had won thier freedom
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she feels people should know how he feels so he writes these poems
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the rebels throw all the tea in the boston harbor
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she publishes this becuase she believes women deserve thier rights
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the beginning of the french revolutionary war
