decline after Shakespeare‚ for the simple reason that there was no other great enough to fill his place." The dramatists of the Jacobean age can be divided into two classes as follows: (i) The dramatists of the old school-Dekker‚ Heywood‚ Webster‚ Beaumont‚ and Fletcher. (ii) The satiric group-Chapman‚ Jonson‚ Marston‚ Middleton‚ and Tourneur. The Change of Patrons: One of the reason for the decadence in Jacobean drama was its loss of national spirit and patronage. In the age of
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Exam Name: UGC- NET / JRF Examination Subject: General Awareness or GK (Second Paper) 1. Which novel has a nameless narrator? (a) Moby Dick (b) Anna Karenina (c) Invisible Man (d) The Grapes of Wrath 2. Samuel Beckett wrote - (a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
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University Online‚ Hoffman Estates‚ IL 60192 Contact: desiree.dubose1@aiu.edu Abstract Vernacular can be defined as using a language that is native to a country or province rather than a cultured‚ foreign‚ or literary language (Merriam-Webster‚ 2011). Vernacular will one day be known as the languages Spanish‚ French‚ Portuguese‚ and Italian. Vernacular is the large family of modern “Romance” languages. Terms referred to the poets in the mid-1200s produced the first body of literature in
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Lear and Comedy.... Lear and Comedy. Strangely enough‚ it is G. Wilson Knight‚ a critic famous (not to say notorious) for a vehemently Christian interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays‚ who notes in The Wheel of Fire some of the comedic aspects of King Lear[1]. Whether or not the harsh moral ecology of King Lear fits comfortably with the Christian ethos of forgiveness‚ structural elements of comedy are plainly present in King Lear‚ quite apart from the sardonic humour of the Fool. Indeed‚ a ‘happy
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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A Comparative Analysis of Love‚ Sex‚ and Emotion Upon Renaissance Literature It would be hard to find a period in human history where sex‚ women‚ and beauty were not a highly influential topic. Over countless centuries‚ women have influenced religious movements‚ wars‚ famine and poverty‚ the arts‚ and a plethora of other subjects; indeed‚ the appeal of sex seems to have had a hand in all things we know of today. This is certainly true of the Renaissance era‚ as well‚ where sexual relations was
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known to be an academic painter‚ this seems to be a contradiction‚ as Webster ’s Dictionary states that an academic painter followed rules and conventions‚ while a painter from the Romantic Movement broke away from convention and painted more by feeling and freedom of form‚ which is what Winterhalter did. According to Britannica Biography Collection on EBSCOhost‚ Winterhalter was hired as the drawing master to the Grand Duchess of Baden in 1828‚ which first entered him into court circles. Around
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assembled media on Tuesday. After returning to the hospital and grabbing a car seat‚ the couple situated the baby and Prince William drove them home to Kensington Palace. For now‚ the baby is expected to stay out of the spotlight. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to soon choose a photographer for the baby’s first official portrait.
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Comparison of the use of a dramatic monologue. In ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’‚ Browning uses several features of dramatic monologue in order to engage and sustain the interest of the audience. This style of monologue is spoken by a character‚ which is not the poet‚ and is usually projected at a critical moment‚ as in the case of ’My Last Duchess’ and ’Porphyria’s Lover’. The speakers unintentionally reveal their insanity‚ in both poems‚ through their separate accounts. By studying
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