English Drama: Origin and Growth The Beginnings The genesis of English Drama, like Greek and Roman drama, is intertwined with religion. In the early stages of all civilizations, the lives of important people found...
Saint Joan A play in six scenes (with a Preface and an Epilogue) by George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw is a cool play about Joan of Arc, a French girl...
Introduction Before learning how to translate a text from Middle to Modern English, let’s have an introduction of Middle English. Middle English was spoken and written in England roughly between the 12th and 15th...
Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable gives you a real feel for a day in the life of Bakha, a sweeper from the untouchable caste in India during colonial times, showing the struggles he faces...
Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) Introduction According to M.H. Abrams, Elizabethan Age in the history of Britain refers to “the period of the reign of Elizabeth I” from 1558 to 1603. However, the term “Elizabethan,” is often...
The Knight’s Tale Chaucers’s The Knight’s Tale is a story about two brave knights, Palamon and Arcite, competing for love, honour, and fate. Key Facts Title: The Knight’s Tale Authorship: written by Chaucer; first...
Sylvia Plath My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time. The above line is from Sylvia Plath’s journals called “The Unabridged Journals...
Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish’d e’er he shines. —John Dryden Life and Works Geoffrey Chaucer was born around 1340 into a distinguished commercial family....
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot relates the experiences of two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon who spend their time waiting by a tree for the arrival of a mysterious character named Godot. Introduction...
Symbolist Movement In a significant work by Arthur Symons, titled “The Symbolist Movement in Literature” (1899), he characterized the movement as a reaction against realism and naturalism and as an attempt to “spiritualize literature.”...
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