15Th c.’s english drama

Miracula (miracle-play) – misterium (mystery-play) – moralite (moral play)

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“The Shrewsbury fragments” “A Treatise of Miraclis pleyinge”

Pageant “The Towneley Plays”

1543

The English Literature of the 17th c.

1620-s – 1640-s:

Francis Beaumont (1584—1616) & John Fletcher (1579—1625)

By Beaumont alone:

The Knight of the Burning Pestle, comedy (performed 1607; printed 1613)

The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, masque (printed 1613)

With Fletcher:

The Woman Hater, comedy (1606; 1607)

Cupid's Revenge, tragedy (c. 1607–12; 1615)

Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding, tragicomedy (c. 1609; 1620)

The Maid's Tragedy, tragedy (c. 1609; 1619)

A King and No King, tragicomedy (1611; 1619)

The Captain, comedy (c. 1609–12; 1647)

The Scornful Lady, comedy (ca. 1613; 1616)

Love's Pilgrimage, tragicomedy (c. 1615–16; 1647)

The Noble Gentleman, comedy (licensed 3 February 1626; 1647)

John Marston (1575—1634) - “Antonios Revenge” (1602); “The Insatiate Countesse” (1610)

Cyril Tourneur (1575 – 1626) – “The Revengers Tragaedie” (1607); The Atheists Tragedie; or, The Honest Mans Revenge (1611)

John Webster (1580 — 1625) - “The White Devil” (1612)

Thomas Middleton (1580—1627) – “The Phoenix” (1603); “A Yorkshire Tragedy” (1605, attributed to Shakespeare); “The Witch” (1616); “A Game at Chess” (1624); “Women Beware Women” (1621; p. 1657);

John Ford (1586 — c. 1640) - “'Tis Pity She's a Whore” (1633); “The Lover's Melancholy” (1629); “The Lady's Trial” (1639); “The Spanish Gypsy” (1653).

Inigo Jones

James Shirley (1596—1666) - “Love Tricks”, 1625; “The Wedding”, 1629; “The Bird in the Cage”, 1633; “The Lady of Pleasure”, 1637

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) - “Aglaura” (pr. 1638); “The Goblins” (1638, pr. 1646)

William Davenant (1606-1668) - “The Wits” (1636); “The Spanish Lovers” (1639); “The History of Sir Francis Drake” (1659)

Ben Johnson (1573 — 1637) :

“A Tale of a Tub” (1596); “Every Man in His Humour” (p.1601); “Every Man out of His Humour” (p.1600); “The Poetaster” (1601); “Volpone” (c.1606); “The Alchemist” (p.1612); “Bartholomew Fair” (p. 1631);

The English Baroque

The Renaissance Harmony Simplicity Anthropocentrism Secular culture Human’s liberation against social & religious bonds

The Baroque Gothic Complication Theocentrism Church culture Church and state role elevation in the life of a human being

“Memento mori!” John Donne: “A man is a worm that crawls in dirt and blood…”

[from “Holy Sonnets”] “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

[from “Meditation XVII”] “All whom war, death, age agues, tyrannies, despair, law, chance, hath slain” [“Holy Sonnets”]

John Donne (1573—1631) The Metaphysical Poets = The School of Wit:

Songs and Sonnets (1590s) George Herbert (1593–1633)

An Anatomy of the World (1611) Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

Of the Progress of the Soul (1612) Saint Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595)

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

Meditations (1623-24) Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637 – 1674)

Essayes in Divinity (1651) Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)