Short History Of English Drama

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Initial drama

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Religious performances- Priests and monks were characters- Performed inside Church- Latin dialogues.

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What increased its popularity?

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Participation of common people.

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Improvisations?

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Humorous scenes

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Trade guilds

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Scriptural events- creation if man or ressurection of Christ.

Miracles or mysteries.

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Miracle plays

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Lives of saints

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Mystery plays

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Themes from the Bible

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Morality plays

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Early 15th century.

Characters represented abstract qualities, common virtues and vices, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.

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Characters in morality plays

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Virtue, ignorance, prudence and sloth

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Interlude

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Comic script discussing common matters or topics of the day

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The Four P's

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John Heywood

Pardoner, Pedlar, Palmer and Pothecary

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Earliest English comedy

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Ralph Roister Sister by Nicholas Udall

Grammer Gurton's Needle

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Model for English tragedies

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L. Annaues Seneca- Roman philosopher

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First English tragedy

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Gorboduc or Ferret and Porrex by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton

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Works influenced by Seneca

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Spanish Tragedy- Thomas Kyd (melodrama theme of revenge)

The White Devil and The Duchess of Malphi- John Webster

King Richard 3, Macbeth and Hamlet- Shakespeare

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Christopher Marlow

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Tamberlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, Edward 2

Depicted Renaissance tempo with all its new aspirations, hopes and adventures

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University of Wits

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John Lyly, George Peele, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd

Paved way for Shakespeare.

Notable contribution to growth of drama in the Elizabethan period.

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Comedy of humours

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Ben Johnson

Reasiltic comedies that represented the oddities of human characters often depicting whimsical or eccentric characters on stage

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Example of a work of comedy of humours

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Volpone by Ben Johnson

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Puritans

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Stephen Gosson, Philip Stubbes and William Prynne

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Closing of theatres in the year

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1642

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Protectorship

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Oliver Cromwell

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Monarchy restored in

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1660

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Comedy of manners

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Etherege, Congreve, Wycherley

Truthfully reflected the manners, ways, love intrigues and the foppery of the aristocratic, elite classes of the society

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George Etherege

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She would if she could

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Congreve

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The Way of the World

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William Wycherley

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The Country Wife

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Victorian age

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Problem play- discussed contemporary issues through realistic technique. Preoccupied with the vital problems of contemporary life and morality, they made a conscious effort to deal with social problems of the time.

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Victorian dramatists

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Henrik Ibsen and Emile Francois Zola

Introduced spirit of naturalism and realism

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Henrik Ibsen

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Victorian dramatist

Placed themes and situations of contemporary life on stage and made serious drama a mirror as well as stern moniter of his age

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Emile Francois Zola

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Victorian dramatist

Aimed at portraying the banality of everyday life and was convinced that naturalistic movement would give life and vigour to the theatre.

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Advocate of problem play in England

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George Bernard Shaw

Wanted to make world a better place to live in and examined human beings and their social institutions through a critical eye

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Mrs. Warren's Profession

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G.B.Shaw

Social and economic aspects of prostitution

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The Arms and the Man

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G.B.Shaw

Stripped of romantic notions about war and heroism

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Candida

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G.B.Shaw

Dealt with issues related to women

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John Galsworthy

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Exponent of problem play

Drama became a powerful instrument of social criticism.

Sympathized with the victims of social injustice, the poor and the downtrodden.

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The Silver box

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John Galsworthy

Inequalities of justice

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Strife

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John Galsworthy

Struggle between Capital and Labour

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Justice

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John Galsworthy

Cruelty of solitary confinement

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Poetic drama

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Early 20th century

Stephen Phillips, Sean O'Casey, J.M.Synge, Oscar Wilde, T.S.Eliot,

W.B.Yeats, Christopher Fry

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Irish Theatre movement

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Abbey Theatre

Years, Lady Gregory, Synge, O'Casey

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Poetic drama in England

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W.H.Auden, Fry, Eliot

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Murder in the Cathedral

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T.S.Eliot

Imbibed conventions if Greek drama.

Combines myth, ritual and poetry to create a heightened theatrical effect

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Later 20th century

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Rise of working class drama realistically portraying the mood of post-War years especially the restlessness, dislocation and frustration of the working classes.

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John Osborne

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Look back in Anger

Angry young man raging against the corrupt social system

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Frustrations of the marginalized sections especially the poor and the unemploymed

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Chicken soup and Barley- Arnold Wesker

A Taste of Honey- Shelagh Delaney

Live like Pigs- John Arden

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Camus philosophy of life

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Myth of Sisyphus

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Existential worldview

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Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus