And. Introduction. On the occasion of examining Shakespeare’s mingling of tragedy and comedy (seriousness and laughter) Johnson compares Shakespeare’s tragedies with his comedies. In Johnson’s view Shakespeare’s comedies are superior to his tragedies and conform more to his genius and temperament. Johnson quotes several instances to support his view in this connection. The section of the Preface in which …
JOHNSON’S ‘PREFACE’ TO SHAKESPEARE Dr. Johnson’s evaluation. Johnson’s Preface and his notes on Shakespeare’s plays contributed greatly to the body of English criticism. Johnson sets out in a traditional way to interpret the ‘beauties’ and ‘dejects’ of Shakespeare. But quite unlike his predecessors the credit of conveying his own individual response goes to him. Due to this …
Introduction. Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare is one of the most significant achievements in the field of English literary criticism. It is significant not merely as a sound and well reasoned critique of Shakespeare’s dramas, but also as a valuable embodiment of critical theory. There are three different critical approaches in the Preface . The first is that of a disciple …
D. H. LAWRENCE : BIOGRAPHY Herbert Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshir, on September 11, 1885. He was the fourth child of John Arthur Lawrence, a coal miner and Lydia Beardsall. Lawrence’s mother exerted a great influence on him. She encouraged his intellectual and artistic pursuits and helped him to go into the High School …
ODE TO THE WEST WIND SUMMARY Introduction. The poem was written in the autumn of 1819 in the beautiful Cascine Gardens outside Florence, and was published with Prometheus Unbound in 1920. Shelley’s own note on the composition of the poem is important and must be quoted: “This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts …
King lear Plot Overview King Lear is the story of Lear, the aged king of Britain, and Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia, his three children. When he asks them, in return for one-third of his empire, to prove their love for him, all but Cordelia manage to flatter him enough. Clearly, Cordelia is the daughter who …
History of English Literature: Part-1 The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century made a break in the natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or English axon had been a purely Germanic speech with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections for 300 years following the Battle …
History of English Literature: Part-2 the most noteworthy English document of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was the continuation of the anglo-saxon chronicle copies of these annals differing somewhat among themselves have been kept at the monasteries in Winchester Abingdon Worcester and elsewhere the yearly entries were mostly brief dry records of passing events though …
History of English Literature: Part-7 the new learning of the Renaissance had not as yet taken much hold in England upon the whole the productions of Caxton’s press were mostly of a kind that may be described as medieval and the most important of them if we accept his addition of Chaucer was that noble …
At what point of the story does Jocasta realize that Oedipus is her son who killed his father Laius? Ans. When Jocasta observes that Oedipus is too much troubled by the accusation of Teiresias as that he was leiller ofhis own father, she tries to alleviate his worries by saying that prophets are often wrong. As …