The document discusses Elizabethan drama and playwrights William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. It notes that Elizabethan drama refers to plays produced during Queen Elizabeth's reign from 1558 to 1603. Shakespeare was the most famous dramatist of this period, known for tragedies like Hamlet and comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream. The document also provides details about Ben Jonson, a contemporary of Shakespeare who was a satirical comedy writer and produced works like The Alchemist. It then discusses Shakespeare's body of work and divides it into four periods of development.

1.  Name: haider ali
 Class: bs 1st (English)
 Roll no: 11
 Subject: history of English
 Presentation: Elizabethan drama, Ben
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2. Introduction
(1554-1637)
Elizabethan drama refers to the plays produced while
Queen Elizabeth reigned in England, from
1558 until 1603.
Elizabethan plays about histories of England’s
rulers, but revenge dramas & comedies.
Shakespeare most famous of the Elizabethan
dramatists

3.  Before Elizabethan, Plays tended religious
themes. Elizabethan dramas focused secular
issues.
 Tragedies of the era focused on creating a sense
of both terror and pity in the audience.
 Shakespeare was the master of tragedy
(Hamlet, Othello),
 Historical play Edward II, Richard III and Henry
V.
 English patrons period could go to the Globe
theater (1599), by Shakespeare &Ben
Johnson (The Alchemist).
 Enjoyed poking fun & good Laugh.

4.  Ben Jonson: (11 June 1572 – 6 August
1637)
 An English Renaissance dramatist,
 A contemporary of William Shakespeare,
 Satirical & comedy writer(The Alchemist).
 Classicist.
 Moralist & Reformer of Drama.
 1st time introduced HUMOUR.(mean peculiar
trail in character).
 Realist; believe in real & practical works.

5.  Every Man in His Humors, comedy
 Every Man out of His Humors, comedy
 The Alchemist, comedy
 Sejanus His Fall, tragedy
 A Tale of a Tub, comedy
 The Poetaster, comedy
 Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, comedy
 Volpone, comedy
 Catiline His Conspiracy, tragedy
 Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson

6.  Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world.
 English poet and playwright.
 England's national poet
 He created 38 plays,
 154 sonnets,
 2 long narrative poems,
 Several other poems

7.  Shakespeare's total work can be divided
into 4 periods.
1. Immature Period
2. Creative Period
3. Highly Proffiosnal Period
4. Down fall Period

8.  Generally This period called experimental
work. because he experimented the revision
 In this period his style was technically
immature.
 Plays written in this period are;
Comedy of error, Henry VI (part
I, II, III), Midsummer night
dream, Romeo Juliet , Two
gentlemen of Verona etc.

9.  2nd period known for great comedies.
 Now mature. Style less technically rigid, more
creative.
 Plays including in this period are; All’s well that
ends well, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night .

10.  This period belongs to his great tragedies.
 This period is characterized by the
highest development of his thoughts and
expressions.
 He expressed life from every angle.
 In this period he created a great work;
Julius Caesar, King Lear, Antony &
Cleopatra, Macbeth, Measure for measure.

11.  This period belongs to his later comedies and
dramatic romance.
 There was the decline of thoughts and
expressions.
 The Evil is now controlled and Conquered by
Good.
 In this period he did not gave any literature
alone.
 Cymbeline, Henry VIII, The winter's tale and
The Tempest are the part of last period.

12.  Tragedies:
 Romeo and Juliet
 Coriolanus
 Titus Andronicus †
 Timor of Athens †
 Julius Caesar
 Macbeth †
 Hamlet
 Troilus and Cressida ‡
 King Lear
 Othello
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Cymbeline *

13. o Twelfth Night
o The Comedy of Errors
o Love's Labor's Lost
o Measure for Measure ‡
o The Merchant of Venice
o The Taming of the Shrew
o The Tempest *
III. Histories
o Richard II
o Henry IV, Part 1
o Henry IV, Part 2
o Henry V
o Henry VI, Part 1 †
o Henry VI, Part 2
o Henry VI, Part 3

14.  Shakespeare's sonnets
 Venus and Adonis
 The Rape of Lucerne
 The Passionate Pilgrim
 The Phoenix and the Turtle
 A Lover's Complaint

15.  The period has the great variety of almost unlimited creative
force; it includes works of many kinds in both verse and
prose.
 Ranges in spirit from the loftiest Platonic idealism or the
most delightful romance to the level of very repulsive realism.
 It was mainly dominated, however, by the spirit of romance.
 It was full also of the spirit of dramatic action.
 It was in part a period of experimentation, when the proper
material and limits of literary forms were being determined.
 It continued to be largely influenced by the literature of
Italy, and to a less degree by those of France and Spain.

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