group three: drama
RENAISSANCE AND RESTORATION DRAMA
Christopher
Marlowe
Public, private, and court theater
2] first public play house?
Red lion at white chapel in 1567.
3] The theatre associated with shakspeare and its features?
The globe. A public play house able to hold 3000 spectators. It is amphitheatre with tired galleries, the groundlings, who paid a penny stood before the stage, while the seats higher up costs more, the audience as such being separated by wealth rather than by social status.
4] start of English civil war
1642 and so drama was decline.
5] first great dramatist of restoration period
Christopher Marlowe{ born 1564 same year of Shakespeare born)
6] narrative poem of Marlowe?
Hero and leander{
published 1598}
7] in which
year he died?
1593 accident .he has a connection to homosexuality
8] first major play of Marlowe
Tumburlaine the great{1587)
2nd part
9] First
blank verse tragedy? Who are written this tragedy?
10] marlowe’s most famous play
Doctor Faustus (1592)
11)Marlowe’s play about death and violence?
The jew of malta {performed on 1592 but not published until 1633}
Note: Nearly all renaissance tragedies incorporate some elements of revenge.
12} revenge play starts with-----------------------------?
Thomas kyd. Author of the Spanish tragedy(c.1587)
13] when he died on----------------------------
Was arrested and tortured in 1593 and died 1594
14} pre-Shakespearean play about hamlet writern by---------------------
Thomas kyd
15] Give the list of revenge tragedies which influence the Spanish tragedy?
Hamlet by Shakespeare, the revengers tragedy {1607] by Thomas middleton, the white devil{1612} and the duchess of malfi{ 1617} by jhon Webster, women beware women (1621), the changeling{1622}, again by middleton, and jhon ford’s tis pity she is a whore{1633}. These are all major revenge plays . add shaksepeares , Titus Andronicus, tourneur’s the atheist tragedy, and George chapman’s the revenge of bussy d ambois.{perfrmd 1611}.
Ben Jonson and renaissance drama
London
17. First unofficial poet laureate being given a pension by james I in 1616?
Jonson
18. jonson’s prose work published after his death?
Timber: or discoveries: it discusses poetic and dramatic principles. Published in 1640.
19. First major play of jonson?
It Was Every Man In His Humor {1598}.
20] what jonson meant about this humor?
The Governing passions of human beings, such as greed, lust and ambition, passions which he exaggerates for the purpose of satire……
21]. Jonson’s tragedy?
Sejanus (1603)
22]. Great comic dramas of jonson?
Volpone{1605}, the alchemist{1610}, barthaolomew fair{1614},
Restoration
drama
23. Which are the theatrical menu consisted
of three types of play?
i.
Operas,ii. tragedies and
iii. comedies.
24.The central male dramatists of this
restoration period ?
They are Etherege, farquar, wycherly,
and Congreve
25.Who is first major woman dramatist in
England?
a. Aphra Behn.
b. First play?----:the forced
marriage(1670).
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c. The rover(1677-81)
26.Features of restoration comedies?
Sometimes referred as comedy of
manners. Their main area of debate: the manners and morals of fashionable
society. They are town comedies. The dominant theme is sexual intrigue.
Pick up
suitable one
Jeremy collier------:his attack: short view of the immorality
and profaneness of the English stage.{1698}
Indian drama in English
choose the right one
1.in recent years where is the center of Indian plays in English?
(Bangalore, madras, Bombay, Calcutta )
2. in which year mahesh dattani's play first performed
in Deccan herald theater festival ?
(1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)
3. which was dattani's play performed on 1989?
(tara, dance like a man, final solution, silence, the court is in session)
4. dattani's play based on communalism?
(dance like a man, final solutions, harvest, a doll's house)
5. dattani's play performed on 1990?
(where there is a will, tara, dance like a man, final solutions}
6. which is the play banned from deccan festival but awarded padmasree in bombay ?
(dance like a man, tara, riders to the sea, final solutions)
7. which are the 1994 plays of mahesh dattani?
(where there is a will, dance like a man, bravery fought the queen)
answers
1. bangalore
2.1988
3.dance like a man
4.final solutions
5.tara
6. final solutions
7. all the three are dattani's plays.
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