Lec 4

Cards (15)

  • 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