Name: haider ali Class: bs 1st (English)

Roll no: 11 Subject: history of English

Presentation: Elizabethan drama, Ben Jonson & WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Given by :sir irfan ullah

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA Introduction (1554-1637)

Elizabethan drama refers to the plays produced

while Queen Elizabeth reigned in England, from 1558 until 1603.

Elizabethan plays about histories of England’s

rulers, but revenge dramas & comedies.

Shakespeare most famous of the Elizabethan

dramatists

Essential Facts Before Elizabethan, Plays tended religious

themes. Elizabethan dramas focused secular issues.

Tragedies of the era focused on creating a sense of both terror and pity in the audience.

Shakespeare was the master of tragedy (Hamlet, Othello),

Historical play Edward II, Richard III and Henry V.

English patrons period could go to the Globe theater (1599), by Shakespeare &Ben Johnson (The Alchemist).

Enjoyed poking fun & good Laugh.

Elizabethan Authors Ben Jonson: (11 June 1572 – 6

August 1637) An English Renaissance dramatist, A contemporary of William Shakespeare, Satirical & comedy writer(The Alchemist). Classicist. Moralist & Reformer of Drama. 1st time introduced HUMOUR.(mean

peculiar trail in character). Realist; believe in real & practical works.

Works

Every Man in His Humors, comedy Every Man out of His Humors, comedy The Alchemist, comedy Sejanus His Fall, tragedy A Tale of a Tub, comedy The Poetaster, comedy Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, comedy Volpone, comedy Catiline His Conspiracy, tragedy Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson 

William Shakespeare26 April 1564

Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world.

English poet and playwright. England's national poet He created 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems, Several other poems

4 PERIODS Shakespeare's total work can be

divided into 4 periods.

1. Immature Period2. Creative Period3. Highly Proffiosnal Period4. Down fall Period

Immature Period Generally This period called

experimental work. because he experimented the revision

In this period his style was technically

immature. Plays written in this period are;

Comedy of error, Henry VI (part I, II, III), Midsummer night dream, Romeo Juliet , Two gentlemen of Verona etc.

Creative PERIOD

2nd period known for great comedies.

Now mature. Style less technically rigid,

more creative.

Plays including in this period are; All’s well

that ends well, Hamlet, Othello,

Twelfth Night .

Highly Proffiosnal period. This period belongs to his great

tragedies. This period is characterized by the highest development of his thoughts

and expressions. He expressed life from every angle. In this period he created a great work;

Julius Caesar, King Lear, Antony & Cleopatra, Macbeth, Measure for

measure.

Down fall period. This period belongs to his later

comedies and dramatic romance. There was the decline of thoughts

and expressions. The Evil is now controlled and

Conquered by Good. In this period he did not gave any

literature alone. Cymbeline, Henry VIII, The winter's

tale and The Tempest are the part of last period.

Works Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus Titus Andronicus † Timor of Athens † Julius Caesar Macbeth † Hamlet Troilus and Cressida ‡ King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline *

II.Comedieso Twelfth Night o The Comedy of Errorso Love's Labor's Losto Measure for Measure ‡ o The Merchant of Venice o The Taming of the Shrewo The Tempest *

III. Historieso Richard II o Henry IV, Part 1 o Henry IV, Part 2o Henry V o Henry VI, Part 1 †o Henry VI, Part 2 o Henry VI, Part 3

Poems Shakespeare's sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucerne The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint

Characteristics of Elizabethan Literature.

 The period has the great variety of almost unlimited creative force; it includes works of many kinds in both verse and prose.

Ranges in spirit from the loftiest Platonic idealism or the most delightful romance to the level of very repulsive realism.

It was mainly dominated, however, by the spirit of romance.

It was full also of the spirit of dramatic action. It was in part a period of experimentation, when the

proper material and limits of literary forms were being determined.

It continued to be largely influenced by the literature of Italy, and to a less degree by those of France and Spain.

The Old Globe pictures

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