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Part 3: The Seventeenth Century – The Age of the Revolution (1603-1688)
3.13 KEY TERMS
The Book of Common Prayer
Charles I
Charles II
Sir Christopher Wren
The Civil War
Dissenters
Divine right of kings
Epic convention
Epic similes
Frances Bacon
The Great Plague of London
The Great Fire of London
The Gunpowder Plot
Heroic couplet
Heroic drama
Sir Isaac Newton
James I
King James Bible
Leviathan
Metaphysical conceits
Metaphysical poetry
Oliver Cromwell
Parliament
Parliamentarians
Principia
The Restoration
Robert Hooke
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
Royalists
Scientific spirit
Social contract
Sons of Ben
St Paul’s Cathedral