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November 28, 2019 • 22:13 pm

Quick Revision of Drama (NTA UGC-NET English): Part 3

Dear Students, Here, we will explain the key points for a brief revision of the Unit 1 - Drama for NTA UGC-NET English. Key Points and Summary- 17. Jacobean city comedy contains several of the themes of domestic tragedy . unhappy marriages, debts, adultery, and so on. Such comedy makes the audience laugh at these themes and at the characters who enact them. Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) is one of the earliest of city comedies; Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, from the first decade of the new century, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) are among the most successful of the genre. 18. Francis Beaumont in The knight of the Burning Pestle (1607-8) parodies the conventions of old-fashioned chivalry, as a city apprentice takes parts in a 'play-within-the-play'. Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625-26) remained one of the most popular social comedies for more than two hundred years. 19. The theatre of the Restoration was quite different from Shakespeare's theatre, with the audience now largely upper class. 20. Nahum Tate (author of the Christmas carol The First Nowell) reworked King Lear to provide it with a happy ending. Tate's King Learwas to be the standard version of the work for almost two centuries. 21. Restoration tragedy is 'heroic' tragedy. All for Love (1678), by John Dryden, is a good example of the type. 22. Thomas Otway was the major original tragedian of the Restoration period, his The Orphan (1680) and Venice Preserv'd (1682) remaining popular for over a century. 23. Restoration drama is better known as 'the comedy of manners' because it mirrored directly the manners, modes, and morals of the upper-class society which was its main audience. The characters are obsessed with fashion, gossip and their own circle in society. These are represented as contrasts between rustic country manners and the refinements of the city. 24. The Country Wife (1675) by William Wycherley has frequently been held up as the most obscene and amoral of Restoration plays. It is a comedy of seduction and hypocrisy. 25. The notable outcome of Restoration comedy was a pamphlet published by a clergyman, Jeremy Collier, in 1698, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. Collier complained about mockery of the clergy, and about profanity and bad language, topics already aired in Puritan strictures against the theatre seventy years before.

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