A comedy concerned with the social actions and behavior of members of a highly sophisticated‚ upper-class society. The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of dialogue‚ abounding in the use of paradox‚ epigram‚ and irony. All these three devices produce a comic effect in this play‚ even though it is possible for a dramatist to use these devices for a serious purpose also. There are a number of paradoxical statements‚ epigrammatic remarks‚ and ironical or sarcastic remarks‚ all of a comic
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dramatic conventions of revenge in Elizabethan theater. All revenge tragedies originally stemmed from the Greeks‚ who wrote and performed the first plays. After the Greeks came Seneca who was very influential to all Elizabethan tragedy writers. Seneca who was Roman‚ basically set all of the ideas and the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era were Hamlet‚ written by
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Romantic Period 1820-1900 General Notes: • Cultural Movement that stressed ⁃ Emotion ⁃ Imagination ⁃ Individualism Diverse and Complex • Fascination with Fantasy • Revered ⁃ Middle Ages ⁃ Chivalry ⁃ Romance • Inspired by ⁃ Medieval Folk Ballads ⁃ Tales of Fantasy ⁃ Adventure • Coincided with the Industrial ⁃ Revolution Visual Arts of the Period: • Most important influence on painters and sculptures was Nature Music in Society: ⁃ Making
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SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY M.H. Abrams defined ‘comedy’ as ‘ a work in which materials are selected and managed primarily in order to interest‚ involve‚ and amuse us: the characters and their discomfitures engage our delighted attention rather than our profound concern. We feel confident that no great disaster will occur‚ and usually the action turns out happily for the chief characters. Abrams specifies several different types of comedy ‘within the broad spectrum of dramatic comedy’‚ including romantic comedy
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sports‚ and music of the Elizabethan Era Elizabethan era culture was very different‚ but also similar to our culture today. There are many mysteries surrounding the Elizabethan era. This era started when queen Elizabeth the first took power hence the name Elizabethan Era. During the year the ra took place (1558- 1603) there was a distinct culture of England. People of the Elizabethan era were into many different things like sports‚ food‚ and clothing. People of the Elizabethan era were into sports
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which the Shakespearean play‚ Othello is set in is a clear representation of the writer’s context. The values‚ attitudes and beliefs that Shakespeare reveals in the opening and closing scenes of Othello‚ are the exact to the ones accepted by the Elizabethans of the sixteenth century. With the limited number of Black people being around‚ in Othello we can see the racist remarks that are being made upon one‚ as well as the resilience to accept one within a society. Even though the play itself is set
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After being charged with a penalty‚ the bulk of criminals were sentenced to a prison until either released or punished. There were exactly eighteen prisons: the Tower‚ the Gatehouse‚ Fleet‚ Newgate‚ Ludgate‚ Poultry Counter‚ Wood Street Counter‚ Bridewell‚ White Lion‚ the King’s Bench‚ Marshalsea‚ Southwark Counter‚ Clink‚ St. Katherine’s‚ East Smithfield‚ New Prison‚ Lord Wentworth’s‚ and Finsbury. Each of the prisons in London had different levels of accommodation for its prisoners. The section
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The Romantic Period was a literary movement in Europe and America during the late 1700s through the middle 1800s. Romanticism was characterized by five basic systems of beliefs. It should not be surprising that these were completely different from the characteristics of the Enlightenment. Romanticism was an intentional revolt against the rational‚ formal‚ reasonable period of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was too scientific and did not focus on romanticism. The Romantic Movement emphasized
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Romantic Orientalism during the Romantic period of writing is visible in "The Indian Serenade" by Percy Shelley‚ "The Little Black Boy" by William Blake‚ and "Lamia" by John Keats. The exaggerations‚ cultural expressions‚ references to African or Indian background‚ and fictional story lines and characters play as proof that Romantic Orientalism is pieced into these author ’s writings‚ considering these are characteristics of which Romantic Orientalism displays. Each author‚ Shelley‚ Blake‚ and Keats
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Elizabethan Knights During the Elizabethan era‚ 1558 to 1603‚ knights played a huge rule and were very important. Becoming a knight was not was not easy at all. They were important when protecting the land and the people. Without knights there would be no one to protect the magnificent Queen and also others. Knights were very interesting and important to the Elizabethan era and impacted the civilization in many ways. “Becoming a Knight took years of training‚ during which a young man learned how
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