Topic Dryden's comparative criticism of Shakespeare,Ben Johnson,Beaumont and Fletcher in 'An essay of Dramatic poesy'
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Name :Gohil jyotiba .P
Roll no:51
Class:sem 1
E mail Id: jyotiba Gohil 08@ Gmail.com
Submited to: Dr.Dilip Barad
Dryden's comparative criticism of Shakespeare,Benjohnson,Beaumont and Fletcher in 'An essay of Dramatic poesy'
Introduction
John Dryden
John Dryden felt strongly about the relation of the poet to traditiona and the creative process and his best heroic play Aureng zebe has a prologue which denounces the use of rhyme.John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet,literary Critic,translator and play-wright who was made poet laureate in 1668.
He is seen as dominating the Literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him"Glorious John."
Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near The apron in Northamptonshire,where his maternal grandfather was Rector of all saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and his wife Mary Pickering paternal grandson of sir Erasmus Dryden 1st Baronet and wife Frances Wilkes,puritan landowning gentry who supported the puritan cause and parliament.He was a second cousin once removed of John's than swift.As a boy Dryden lived in the village of Titchmarch,Northamptonshire.Dryden's poems,translations and criticism are best.
An essay on Dramatic prose.
Dryden is Neoclassical poet.Dryden comes after the Elizabethan age.Elizabethan age was having its free flow of imagination and romances and all that and it was by reaction that the next generation of poets writing satires drama inverse in the ancient sense poetry,because Aristotle uses poetry in the sencense of literature but mostly in verse because that was a convention.So these Neo classical poets were trying to get back to some different sorts of inspiration as other than that of Elizabethans.In doing so they were getting two extreme position.Some of them were becoming consenservative imitators rather blind imitators of Horace,Aristotle etc.Some of them were looking to French inspiration,the Neo classical way doing all these things.As a poet Dryden realized that he needed a kind of sanitized tested kind of way.Which justifies as against the Elizabethan's practice,justifies his current age and himself.He felt that here is a scope as a practitioner of that particular genre called drama and as an educated literate person,he needed to kind of recollect and formally kind of prepare a critical position.So dramatic poesy' means poetic art for drama.
A just and lively image of human nature representing it's prassions and humours and the changes of fortune to which it is subject for the delight and instructions of mankind.
Dryden's contribution
1)Progress and modernity.
Dryden has keep faith on progress and modernity.He objects to the pettiness to the Roman comic plot.He finds that Roman play lacks in moral instruction in wit,in warmth of love scene.But at the sometime he admires their plot and regularity of structure.He finds fault in ancient writers but considered them to be the best teacher of the modern.He advocate s classical restraint in Diction.
2) Comparative criticism.
Dryden's comparative criticism theory is proved revolutionary,before Dryden,most of the classist had been conduct to compare modern literature with Greek and Latin because they were regarded as a perfect model for all time.According to him the critic who accused Shakespeare for his liberalization in using the no passion to delve deep in understanding of Shakespearean style.According to him they might not have noticed that
"Art is Dynamic not a static force."
His originality and Liberalism.
Dryden was genius and it is well expressed in his criticism.He influenced by Aristotle and Cicero but he disregards them if they are fantastic.He gives more important to delight then to instruction in his criticism.He says that,
'Dr light is the chief,it not the end of poesy'.
John Fletcher(1579-1625)
He was an English poet and play-wright,although he wrote many works alone and with several different dramatists he is best known for his collaborative with fellow play-wright Francis Beaumont.
The hero of Fletcher play were preoccupied with the theme of love or honor or sometime both together.Fletcher's particular technical abilities served him well in handing plot of comic intrigue and his delight.
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Dryden remarks on Shakespeare.He ceases to be a classicist and goes over to the other romantics.Dryden considers him as a"comprehensive soul".In this essay on Dramatic poesy' he says that Shakespeare he was the man who of all moderns,and perhaps Ancient poets.All the image of nature was still present to him and he drew them not laboriously but luckily when he describes any thing we can see and feel it.
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson was both a creative and Critical writer.He was an English play-wright and poet best known for his satiric comedy 'Everyman in his humour'.Dryden believes that he was most learned and judicious writer which any theater ever had.He was a most sever judge of himself as well as other.
Dryden
Ancient plays
Modern plays
Debate
play-wright,critic,poet.
Character
Eugenics,moderns,crites,ancients,lisideius,french drama,neander,english drama
Francis Beaumont(1584-1616)
Beaumont retired in 1614 These collaboration had helpd to establish both men in the ranks of the best dramatists.Dryden's comment on Beaumont and Fletcher.
Beaumont and Fletcher's collaborative efforts are characterized by ingenious plots,diversified characters and realistic dialoges.
Comedies witty and sophisticated foreshadow the licentious comedies of the restoration.
Limitated the conversation of gentlemen much setter whose debaucheries,quickness of wit can never be painted by others
Their comedies were,delightful and parties were serious.
Popular works
The mild 's Tragedy 1610
A king and no king 1611
The coxcomb 1612
The captain 1613
C
John Fletcher(1579-1625)
Paper 3
Name :Gohil jyotiba .P
Roll no:51
Class:sem 1
E mail Id: jyotiba Gohil 08@ Gmail.com
Submited to: Dr.Dilip Barad
Dryden's comparative criticism of Shakespeare,Benjohnson,Beaumont and Fletcher in 'An essay of Dramatic poesy'
Introduction
John Dryden
John Dryden felt strongly about the relation of the poet to traditiona and the creative process and his best heroic play Aureng zebe has a prologue which denounces the use of rhyme.John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet,literary Critic,translator and play-wright who was made poet laureate in 1668.
He is seen as dominating the Literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him"Glorious John."
Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near The apron in Northamptonshire,where his maternal grandfather was Rector of all saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and his wife Mary Pickering paternal grandson of sir Erasmus Dryden 1st Baronet and wife Frances Wilkes,puritan landowning gentry who supported the puritan cause and parliament.He was a second cousin once removed of John's than swift.As a boy Dryden lived in the village of Titchmarch,Northamptonshire.Dryden's poems,translations and criticism are best.
An essay on Dramatic prose.
Dryden is Neoclassical poet.Dryden comes after the Elizabethan age.Elizabethan age was having its free flow of imagination and romances and all that and it was by reaction that the next generation of poets writing satires drama inverse in the ancient sense poetry,because Aristotle uses poetry in the sencense of literature but mostly in verse because that was a convention.So these Neo classical poets were trying to get back to some different sorts of inspiration as other than that of Elizabethans.In doing so they were getting two extreme position.Some of them were becoming consenservative imitators rather blind imitators of Horace,Aristotle etc.Some of them were looking to French inspiration,the Neo classical way doing all these things.As a poet Dryden realized that he needed a kind of sanitized tested kind of way.Which justifies as against the Elizabethan's practice,justifies his current age and himself.He felt that here is a scope as a practitioner of that particular genre called drama and as an educated literate person,he needed to kind of recollect and formally kind of prepare a critical position.So dramatic poesy' means poetic art for drama.
A just and lively image of human nature representing it's prassions and humours and the changes of fortune to which it is subject for the delight and instructions of mankind.
Dryden's contribution
1)Progress and modernity.
Dryden has keep faith on progress and modernity.He objects to the pettiness to the Roman comic plot.He finds that Roman play lacks in moral instruction in wit,in warmth of love scene.But at the sometime he admires their plot and regularity of structure.He finds fault in ancient writers but considered them to be the best teacher of the modern.He advocate s classical restraint in Diction.
2) Comparative criticism.
Dryden's comparative criticism theory is proved revolutionary,before Dryden,most of the classist had been conduct to compare modern literature with Greek and Latin because they were regarded as a perfect model for all time.According to him the critic who accused Shakespeare for his liberalization in using the no passion to delve deep in understanding of Shakespearean style.According to him they might not have noticed that
"Art is Dynamic not a static force."
His originality and Liberalism.
Dryden was genius and it is well expressed in his criticism.He influenced by Aristotle and Cicero but he disregards them if they are fantastic.He gives more important to delight then to instruction in his criticism.He says that,
'Dr light is the chief,it not the end of poesy'.
John Fletcher(1579-1625)
He was an English poet and play-wright,although he wrote many works alone and with several different dramatists he is best known for his collaborative with fellow play-wright Francis Beaumont.
The hero of Fletcher play were preoccupied with the theme of love or honor or sometime both together.Fletcher's particular technical abilities served him well in handing plot of comic intrigue and his delight.
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Dryden remarks on Shakespeare.He ceases to be a classicist and goes over to the other romantics.Dryden considers him as a"comprehensive soul".In this essay on Dramatic poesy' he says that Shakespeare he was the man who of all moderns,and perhaps Ancient poets.All the image of nature was still present to him and he drew them not laboriously but luckily when he describes any thing we can see and feel it.
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson was both a creative and Critical writer.He was an English play-wright and poet best known for his satiric comedy 'Everyman in his humour'.Dryden believes that he was most learned and judicious writer which any theater ever had.He was a most sever judge of himself as well as other.
Dryden
Ancient plays
Modern plays
Debate
play-wright,critic,poet.
Character
Eugenics,moderns,crites,ancients,lisideius,french drama,neander,english drama
Francis Beaumont(1584-1616)
Beaumont retired in 1614 These collaboration had helpd to establish both men in the ranks of the best dramatists.Dryden's comment on Beaumont and Fletcher.
Beaumont and Fletcher's collaborative efforts are characterized by ingenious plots,diversified characters and realistic dialoges.
Comedies witty and sophisticated foreshadow the licentious comedies of the restoration.
Limitated the conversation of gentlemen much setter whose debaucheries,quickness of wit can never be painted by others
Their comedies were,delightful and parties were serious.
Popular works
The mild 's Tragedy 1610
A king and no king 1611
The coxcomb 1612
The captain 1613
C
John Fletcher(1579-1625)
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