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 "A willing mind makes a hard journey easy" Click Here For  Decline Of Drama Ben Jonson Ben Jonson is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour in 1598. Ben Jonson was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. Ben Jonson is best known for his satiric comedies. Jonson was called the first poet laureate. He was father of English classical comedy in England. Jonson is the most commanding literary figure among the Elizabethans. For twenty-five years he was the literary dictator of London, the chief of all the wits that gathered nightly at the old Devil Tavern. With his great learning, his ability, and his commanding position as poet laureate, he set himself squarely against his contemporaries and the romantic tendency of the age. He was known as war of theatres. For two things he fought bravely, to restore the classi...

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear" Decline of the Drama It was inevitable that the drama should decline after Shakespeare, for the simple reason that there was no other great enough to fill his place. Aside from this, other causes were at work, and the chief of these was at the very source of the Elizabethan dramas. It must be remembered that our first playwrights wrote to please their audiences, that the drama rose in England because of the desire of a patriotic people to see something of the stirring life of the times reflected on the stage. For there were no papers or magazines in those days, and people came to the theaters not only to be amused but to be informed. Like children, they wanted to see a story acted; and like men, they wanted to know what it meant. Shakespeare fulfilled their desire. He gave them their story, and his genius was great enough to show in every play not only their own life and passions but something of the meaning of all lif...

  "Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here" Introduction William Shakespeare was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon ( river ) Or the Bard ( poet ). His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. William Shakespeare was an English playwright and actor of the Renaissance era Or during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre. He was an important member of the King’s Men company of theatrical players.  he wrote a total of 37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. He is considered as master and genius in english literature.  Life And Family He was born in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England. No birth records exist, but an old church record indicates that a William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-up...

"Some are born Great, others achieve Greatness" Period Of Shakespeare's Works  In 1590 to 1595, as early Works, Shakespeare's first plays were mostly histories, Richard 2 and the three parts of Henry 6, written during a vogue for historical drama. Comedy plays were love's labour lost (longest scene, longest speech and longest single word), The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Tragedy plays were Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet ( tragic love Story ).  The Comedy of Errors was also based on classical models and is probably the most complicated of all Shakespeare’s plays, involving two sets of identical twins with multiple identity confusions.  Romeo and Juliet, the famous romantic tragedy of sexually charged adolescence, love, and death.  Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party. They are sure they will not be allowed to marry. Nevertheless, helped by Friar Laurence, they marry in secret instead. Unfortunately, b...

Morality Or Moral Period   Morality plays are presented in personified virtues and dramas depicting the struggle of the soul. Morality plays were designed to teach people a lesson in how to live their life according to the rules of the church. In morality plays, the character were allegorical personified such as death, sin, good and bad angel, seven deadly sins, etc. { representing virtues (beauty, strength, chastity, good deeds ) and vices (greed, envy )}. The main purpose of this drama was didactic, to give moral lesson to the audience. The morality plays generally ended with the virtue win against the evil. This play was marked by the introduction of personage called vice, who was mischievous, comic and humorous character. Vice was the predecessor of the modern clown or jester.  The morality plays were highly didactic in nature having Abstraction and allegories. Abstract ideas represented as characters, Abstract ideas is virtues and vices, sin and repentance, good and e...

The Religious Period Medieval drama which Flourished in the 15th century and paved the way for the great elizabethan theatre. The drama had a religious origin in Greece. Its services connected with religious festivals. liturgical play known as religious period.  In Europe, the drama had a distinctly religious origin. The first characters were drawn from the New Testament, and the object of the first plays was to make the church service more impressive, or to emphasize moral lessons by showing the reward of the good and the punishment of the evil doer. In the latter days of the Roman Empire the Church found the stage possessed by frightful plays and soon the Church itself provides plays.  The Clergy had always tried to teach the unlettered people the chief events of Christian religion through dramatic performances, during medieval times most plays were religious and were used to teach people about the Bible, the lives of the saints, or how to live your life the right and co...

  The Origin   The drama came from Greek word, drama meaning action or to act or to do. Drama is a literary composition, drama is the form of composition design for performance in the theatre, in which the actors take role for certain characters, perform certain action and utter certain dialogues, on the stage before audience and Story became drama. No production of drama in the old English literature( the writers, all poet usually wrote poetry). The great deeds of a people are treasured in its literature and later generations represent in play, a story put into action by living performers, who imagine themselves to be the old heroes.  In England, drama had a distinctly religious origin from the church as the part of services.  The motives of the church began to use dramatics , it was certain that the purpose was didactic, to give deep understanding about the truth of religion to the believer. The bible in latin lauguage, Common people could not understand the mea...

  "Hell is just a frame of mind" Christopher Marlowe   was  a writer of the elizabethan era.  He is known as a great elizabethan tragedian.  He was an English playwright, poet, dramatist and translator of the Elizabethan era. Christopher Marlowe is also known as Kit Marlowe.  He was father of English dramatic poetry. He was true founder of English drama. Ben Jonson called his black verse as Marlowe's mighty line. Christopher Marlowe was most shining star among the university wits. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era and also His free verse is very famous at that time. Marlowe was serving the government in some secret capacity.  Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, His place is very next to  William shakespeare. Golden MCQs Buy Now Life Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury around February 26,  Kent, England in 1564. W...