Shakespeare was born at Stratford on the banks
of the river Avon and so he is called THE BARD OF AVON
Ben Johnson’s comedies are called “”comedies
of Humour. “” because each of them deals with a particular “Humour”” in human
nature.
NAHUN TATE a restoration play writer gave a
happy ending to KING LEAR.
‘’Gather ye rose –buds while ye may.”” This
is the opening line of a popular lyric “”COUNSEL
TO GIRLS”” Written by Robert Herrick.
MATTHEW ARNOLD called the 18th
century “”Our admirable and indispensable Eighteen century””
Fielding’s JOSEPH ANDREWS is a burlesque
based on Richardson’s Pamela.
The year 1798 taken to be the year of the beginning
of the Romantic Movement because it was the year in which WORDSWORTH’S LYRICAL
BALLADS was published.
The year 1837 taken as the closing year of
the Romantic Period and beginning of the Victorian Age because Queen Victoria
succeeded to the throne in this year
The basic theme of Arnold’s LITERATURE AND
DOGMA is theology
‘’Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping Knowledge.””
In these lines of Matthew Arnold, “”THOU””
refers to Shakespeare.
James Joyce’s novel FINNEGANS WAKE
resembles a Vast Musical Composition.
E.M. FORSTER’S A passage to India deals with
the relationship between the BRITISHERS and INDIANS.
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