Md. Al Amin
The Restoration period (1660-1700) had a great
influence on the life and literature
of contemporary age. This period is called the Restoration period because in
this period, with the restoration of monarchy, the English literary tradition
was restored. In the Commonwealth period Charles-II, the son of Charles-I,
was escaped from England to France.
After the fall of Commonwealth, the people of England
brought him back and made him king of England (on May 29,1660). He
remained in power till his death in 1685 when James-II, another son of Charles-I,
ascended the throne. He was a catholic and most of the people who were
protestants wanted to dethrone him. In 1688 there was the Glorious Revolution
(Bloodless Revolution) against him. He fled to France. William-III of France and
his wife Mary, the son-in-law and daughter of James-II, came to the power.