LECTURE XXVIII.
Closing of the Stage by the Puritans—Revival of the Stage under Charles
II.—Depravity of Taste and Morals—Dryden, Otway, and others—
Characterization of the Comic Poets from Wycherley and Congreve to the
Middle of the Eighteenth Century—Tragedies of the same Period—Rowe—
Addison's Cato—Later Pieces—Familiar Tragedy: Lillo—Garrick—
Latest State.