Gothic Novel – Definition & Meaning
Horace Walpole is the founder of gothic school of novelists. Gothic novel was a novel of mystery and imagination. The ...
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Picaresque Novel – Definition & Meaning
Picaresque narrative is an important predecessor of the later novel which emerged in sixteenth century Spain, although the most popular ...
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20th Century Poetic Drama
The poetic drama had a late start in England. During the thirty years from 1890 to 1920 the pure poetic ...
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Sentimental Comedy – Definition & Meaning
Sentimental comedy is an 18th-century dramatic genre which sprang up as a reaction to the immoral tone of English Restoration ...
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The Problem Play Or The Prose Drama of the 20th Century
A problem play or a play of ideas is a drama which treats of a particular social or moral problem. ...
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Anti-Sentimental Comedy – Definition & Meaning
Oliver Goldsmith and R. B. Sheridan revolted against the sentimental comedies of 18th century and pleaded for fresh humour on ...
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Modern Poetic Drama | Revival of Poetic Drama (20th Century)
We have the revival of modern poetic drama as a reaction against the naturalism of Shaw and humanitarianism of Wells. ...
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Restoration Comedy Or Comedy of Manners
The comedy of Manners is the name given to a specific kind of English comedy written during the Restoration period. ...
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Jacobean Drama – Definition & Meaning
Jacobean Drama was a dark form drama in English literature. It was a period of James 1 (1603-1625), also known ...
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Elizabethan Drama | University Wits | Shakespeare’s Predecessors
The writers of early Elizabethan period were all graduates from the university of Oxford or Cambridge. They were men with ...
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