This document outlines various topics related to the history of English drama from the medieval period through the Jacobean period. It includes discussions of morality plays, mystery plays, liturgical drama, the works of Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, comedy of humours, and analyses of specific plays like Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Alchemist. The document also mentions the influence of humanism, university wits, Renaissance causes and consequences, and conflicts between religion and science.
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History of English Drama from Medieval to Jacobean period
This document outlines various topics related to the history of English drama from the medieval period through the Jacobean period. It includes discussions of morality plays, mystery plays, liturgical drama, the works of Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, comedy of humours, and analyses of specific plays like Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Alchemist. The document also mentions the influence of humanism, university wits, Renaissance causes and consequences, and conflicts between religion and science.
This document outlines various topics related to the history of English drama from the medieval period through the Jacobean period. It includes discussions of morality plays, mystery plays, liturgical drama, the works of Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, comedy of humours, and analyses of specific plays like Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Alchemist. The document also mentions the influence of humanism, university wits, Renaissance causes and consequences, and conflicts between religion and science.
History of English Drama from Medieval to Jacobean period
1. Morality plays. - MUSKAAN
2. Mystery plays. - SHRUTI 3. Liturgical drama - BIDISHA 4. Humanism - SHRISTEE 5. University wits - SANJANA 6. History plays of Shakespeare - SHILPA 7. Four major tragedies of Shakespeare - GARGI 8. Women in Shakespeare’s plays - TANISHKA 9. Structure of an ideal tragedy - AAHANA 10. Jacobean drama - chief characteristics - ANUPAMA 11. English drama after Shakespeare - KOMAL 12. Comedy of humours - RIYA 13. Ben Johnson’s realism - RITU 14. Macbeth as a morality play - NIYATI 15. Aristotle’s theory of tragedy - ANSHIKHA 16. Hamartia - GAURI 17. Characterisation in Macbeth - TANISHA 18. Role of witches in Macbeth - SIMRAN 19. Role of cross dressing in Twelfth Night - AYUSHI 20. Shakespeare’s comedies - ANUSHURUTI 21. Theme of madness in Twelfth Night - JAHNAVI 22. Individual and state - nil. 23. Conflict between religion and science during Renaissance. - MANEESHA 24. Renaissance- causes and consequences - Anushka 25. The alchemist as a representative of society in Johnson’s times- KORI 26. The moral aspect of The Alchemist - Shivam 27. Satire in The Alchemist- Krishna