Christopher Fry was a 20th century British poet and playwright known for reviving poetic drama. He is regarded as one of the most lively dramatists of the time. Some of his most famous works include the verse dramas The Lady's Not for Burning, Thor with Angels, and A Sleep of Prisoners. His plays often dealt with themes of good and evil, man and God, and used lyrical language to explore characters' inner selves and quests for identity. Fry believed that using poetry in drama brought a deeper experience of the human condition. He was influenced by T.S Eliot and known for his innovative use of language charged with emotion in his spiritual and intellectual comedies and tragedies
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BCE[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3]
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry).
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BCE[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3]
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry).
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An Apology for Poetry[7] (also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage. from wikipidea
Supernatural element in the Rape of the lock , 1. The women who are quarrelsome after their death, their soul goes to fire and such women become Salamander.
2. Those women who are polite submissive, after their death their soul returns to water and they become Nymphs.
3. Those women who are proud, serious minded, their soul go to Earth and they become Gnome.
4. Those women who are flirt and coquette, after their death, their soul go to air and they become Sylphs.
My presentation on Crites view in favor of ancient and modern dramatist. But he more emphasize on ancient dramatist and he proved how ancient are better than modern dramatist
Dryden was the first practitioner of comparison and analysis in the history of criticism. And therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that English criticism evolved from Dryden.
Anandamath is a Bengali novel, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji and published in 1882. Set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century,
An Apology for Poetry[7] (also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage. from wikipidea
Classifications of Poetry
I. Narrative Poems.
1. Tells a story. (Series of events.)
A. Ballad
1.) very short story
2.) folk product – regular people
3.) simple plot and language
4.) has dialogue
B. Metrical Tale
1.) short story in verse
2.) more descriptions
3.) poet expresses attitudes and opinions
C. Epic
1.) extremely long. (Novel length story in verse.)
2.) about national heroes, kings, great warriors, etc.
3.) elevated tone, lofty style. Language is highly poetic.
II. Lyric Poems.
1. Expresses an emotion. Does not tell a story.
2. Shares a moment – does not explain it.
3. Keys to understand – refer to “Understanding Traditional Poetry.”
a.) Logical content – what the writing actually says.
b.) Emotive content – feeling the writing produces.
A. Reflective Lyric: 99% of school poems fall in this category!!!
1.) Emotional response through recall/ reflection (past tense.)
2.) Usually calm
B. Elegy:
1.) Expresses grief at death.
2.) Usually dignified.
3.) Formal language and structure.
C. Ode:
1.) Any sustained lyric poem of exalted theme.
2.) Often commemorating some important event.
3.) Dignified formal language / irregular structure
D. Sonnet:
1.) Dignified subject matter
2.) FIXED FORM !
a.) Italian (Petrarchan)
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b.) English (Shakespearean)
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III. Dramatic Poetry.
A. Dramatic Narrative: Tells a story by the person involved.
B. Dramatic Monologue: One speaking to others on stage. They listen, character speaks.
C. Soliloquy: One character on stage speaking alone (to himself.)
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www.allpoetry.com
www.wisegeek.org
www.yourdictionary.com
www.bartleby.com
www.olypen.com
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Christopher Fry as a Poet & Playwright
1. Name: Hirani Khushboo A.
M.A.SEM_III
CORE_07:Modern British Literature
Topic: Christopher Fry as a Poet & Playwright
2. Christopher Fry as Poet & Playwright
Born: 18th December 1907
Died: 30th June 2005
Liveliest Dramatist of 20th Century
Contribution: Revival of English Poetic Drama in the
world of Theatre
Regarded as the technique of Dramaturgy
Best known for his Verse Dramas “The Lady’s Not for
Burning” which made him a major force in theatre in
the 1940s and 1950
3. Career
• He gave up his career in 1932 an found Tunbridge wells
• He wrote ‘The Peregrines’ when he was a school boy
• First appeared in 1953 in a programme at ‘The Saville Theatre’in London
• He also wrote the music for ‘She shall have music’ in 1935
• Influenced by poet T.S.Eliot later become friend
• Artistic Director of ‘Oxford Playhouse’1939
4. Literary Contributions
1) Religious Festival Plays
The Boy with a Cart (1938)
Thor, with Angels (1948)
A sleep of Prisoners (1951)
“His Religious plays are not only about religious pilgrimages; they are
part of the ongoing pilgrimage. His characters are much closer to
ordinary people and ordinary life.”
Theme : 1)Good & Evil
2)Man & God
5. Comedies
1)A phoenix of frequent (1946)
2) The Lady’s not for Burning (1949)
3)Venus Observed (1950)
4) The Dark is light Enough (1904)
Theme: “The Comedy is a climate of damp and dry of spirit and matter,
playing April with each other and the climate is the comedy.”
-Christopher Fry
(Preface)The Lady’s not for Burning
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair, a narrow
escape into faith”
6. Tragedy
• The First Born(1946)
Translation of French Playwright
• Ring Round the Moon (1950)
• The Lark (1955)
• Tiger at the Gate (1955)
7. Evidential Critical Reputation
Based on his Dazzling language in his works
Most striking stage Vocabulary and most natural images
“His theatre as theatre of Words”
Because his words are not only heard but also seen through the eyes
and experienced through the mind.
He did not Juxtaposed verse and prose in his plays as Shakespeare
and Eliot did; but he has gift for inventing colloquial language which
is rhythematically charged with innovated idioms.
8. Ability to Weave Musical Words
“By God, a cuckoo Grief and god
A chanting cuckoo that laughs with no smile
A world unable to die, sits on and on
In spring sunlight, Hatching egg after egg.
Hoping against hope that out of one of them will come
The reasons for it all and always out pops the arid chuckle
And centuries of cuckoo spit”
-Oxford University Press, London
(Thomas Mendip) ‘The Lady’s not for Burning’
“He believe that words gives us a larger or deeper experience of
action”
9. Christopher Fry
• Use language charged with emotions
• Sentimental in nature
• Advocate poetic drama dealing with spiritual matters
• World is a land of fertility and he recommends its acceptance
after a renewal or purification of spirit
• As an artist approaching the physical world with joyful
respect
T.S.Eliot
• Rationalist and Intellectual
• The World is a wasteland and reject physical life
• look at life as a devoid of Life
11. Tragedy
• Concern wit the
destiny of the
protagonist with
sorrows
• Demonstrate Human
Dilemma
• No bound of Three
Unities
• More focused on
developing
characters and
porting mood rather
than building plot
• Distinguishes
between the true and
actual
Characterization
• Characters are busy
not in revealing their
personalities but in
exploring their inner
selves
Humor
• Humour with
Intellectual touch
• First please the
gallery as it written
for a very
sophisticated
audience
• treat life as a joke,
quite funny than
laughable
• He not ridicule
man’s follies in
characters of conduct
but to expose the
errors and weakness
of the soul.
12. Theme of Fry’s play
• In all his plays is the Quest for identity on the part of one or more
characters.
• The quest for identity as a religious quest for the Discovery of God.
• Use of poetry in Drama :
“Poetry is action and action is poetry”
• Plays are made up of paradox, Mystery, Intellectual elements,
Religious beliefs, philosophy and mysticism.
