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Types of Comedy

Types of Comedy There are five types of comedy in literature: 1.Romantic Comedy ********************** This type of drama involves the theme of love leading to happy conclusion. We find romantic comedy in Shakespearean plays and some Elizabethan contemporaries.These plays are concerned with idealized love affairs. It is a fact that the true love never runs smooth; however, love overcomes the difficulties and ends in a happy union. Example: ••••••••••• William Shakespeare’s play,A Midsummer Night’s Dream,is a good example of a romantic comedy, presenting young lovers falling comically in and out of love for a brief period. Their real world problems get resolved magically, enemies reconcile and true lovers unite in the end. 2.Comedy of Humors *********************** Ben Johnson is the first dramatist, who conceived and popularized this dramatic genre during late sixteenth century. The term humor derives from Latin word ‘humor’ that means liquid. It comes from a theory t...

Elaine Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics: The Summary Elaine Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics About the author: Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics . She is well known and respected in both academic and popular cultural fields. She has written and edited numerous books and articles focused on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking widespread controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature and the Fin-de-Siecle (turn of the 19th century). Her most innovative work in this field is in madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women’s writ...

Helen of Troy

** HELEN of Troy** In Greek mythology, Helen of Sparta was perhaps the most inspired character in all literature, ancient or modern. A whole war, one which lasted for ten years, was fought over her. Not only that, nearly all the myths of the heroic age were threaded together in such a way that this most idealized of all wars was the culmination of various exploits, including the Argonaut, the Theban wars, and the Calydonian boar hunt. It is as though this event was in the destiny of every dynasty formed from the beginning of things. Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships, was a tantalizing enigma from the very first. She was flesh and blood certainly, but she was also immortal, since her father was none other than Zeus. Her mother was the beautiful Leda, queen of Sparta, and was a sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux. In Greek myths, she was considered the most beautiful woman in the world. By marriage she was Queen of Laconia, a province within Homeric Greece, ...

BEOWULF

What is `Beowulf'? EPIC poem, 3,000 lines long, written in England between AD 700 and 1000 in Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The story tells of the Norse hero, Beowulf, set in a "once upon a time" mythic age. Only one manuscript copy survives, nearly destroyed in 1751 by fire. The original is now in the British Library and can be visited on the library's excellent web site. Beowulf, nobleman warrior and nephew of Hygelac, king of what would now be southern Sweden, is sent to the neighbouring kingdom of Denmark, where a blood-crazed swamp monster called Grendel has been terrorising the countryside for 20 years, butchering, then gorging on, all and sundry at the court of King Hrothgar. The bodies he can't manage to eat he keeps for later in a pouch made of dragon-skins. In gory close combat, Beowulf vanquishes his foe, tearing off his arm and shoulder. The Danes' celebrations are cut short when Grendel's equally monstrous mother comes seeking vengeance, ...

Lit (warm up)

# *Literature*(warm up) 1. 'Renaissance' means -- the revival of learning. 2. Hamlet by Shakespeare is -- a tragedy. 3. Francis Bacon is a/an -- Essayist. 4. Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' is a -- Comedy. 5. Author of 'Hamlet' -- William Shakespeare. 6. 'Silent Woman' written by -- Ben Jonson. 7. 'Elizabethan Tragedy' is centred on -- revenge. 8. Writer of 'Othello' is -- William Shakespeare. 9. The writer of 'Treasure island' is -- Stevenson. 10. 'The Merchant of Venice' plays is written by -- William Shakespeare. 11. Writer of 'Da Vinci Code' is -- Dan Brown. 12. O. Henry is famous for -- short story. 13. The poet of Beauty is English Literature -- John keats. 14. The drama 'A Mid summer Night's Dream ' is written by -- Shakespeare. 15. The writer of 'David Copperfield' is -- Charles Dickens. 16. 'Macbeth' is -- a play. 17. 'Paradise lost' was written...

Titles of Poets

Titles of well-known poets TITLE OF THE POETS. *Aeschylus --Father of Greek Tragedy *John Keats--Poet of Beauty/sensuousness. *Geoffrey --Father of English Poetry *Edmund Spenser --poet's poet *William Shakespeare -Bard of Avon. *Lord Byron - The Revel poet. *William Wordsworth -Poet of Nature *Henry Fielding --Father of Eng. Novel *Homer--- The Blind poet *Anne Bradstreet --The first American poet.