Lec 4

• The first regular English comedy was?

  Ralph Roister Doister
• The first regular English tragedy was Gorboduc, in blank verse,
• The first great dramatist of the time was CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE.
• The Jew of Malta Was written by Christopher marlowe
• Another important work by Christopher Marlowe is Dr. Faustus
• Who did Antonio borrow money from?

  shylock
• Who was a great dramatist who followed Shakespeare, but who was far below him?

  benjamin Jonson
• Rough verse: not elaborated, perfected, or corrected; unpolished, as language, verse, or style: like a rough draft.
• Blank Verse: is a literary term that refers to verses written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
• The Spanish Tragedy is in some ways rather like Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A ghost appears, demanding revenge; but it appears to the father of a murdered son, not to the son of a murdered father, as in Hamlet.
• The Spanish Tragedy (1592) by THOMAS KYD
• famous works by Christopher Marlowe the jew of Malta and dr. faustus
• who was born and educated at Stratford-on-Avon, married Anne

  Hathaway in 1582, and later went to London, where he worked in a theatre. It is known that he was an actor and dramatist by 1592?

  William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet (1594-5) is the first of Shakespeare’s great tragedies
• Antonio borrowed money from?

  Shylock