group three: drama 

RENAISSANCE AND RESTORATION DRAMA

Christopher Marlowe

1]        Which are the three kinds of theaters in renaissance drama?
                                    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)

2^nd part

9] First blank verse tragedy? Who are written this tragedy?

                        Gorboduc (1561). Thomas sackwille and Thomas Norton

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

16. Where he born?

            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.

 (prepared by hafsath.p. please forgive me find any mistakes on this information..attach any difference you feel about this..thankyou..and hope you all well join this group.)