1.  Name: haider ali
 Class: bs 1st (English)
 Roll no: 11
 Subject: history of English
 Presentation: Elizabethan drama, Ben
Jonson &
 Given by :sir irfan ullah

2. Introduction
(1554-1637)
Elizabethan drama refers to the plays produced while
Queen Elizabeth reigned in England, from
1558 until 1603.
Elizabethan plays about histories of England’s
rulers, but revenge dramas & comedies.
Shakespeare most famous of the Elizabethan
dramatists

3.  Before Elizabethan, Plays tended religious
themes. Elizabethan dramas focused secular
issues.
 Tragedies of the era focused on creating a sense
of both terror and pity in the audience.
 Shakespeare was the master of tragedy
(Hamlet, Othello),
 Historical play Edward II, Richard III and Henry
V.
 English patrons period could go to the Globe
theater (1599), by Shakespeare &Ben
Johnson (The Alchemist).
 Enjoyed poking fun & good Laugh.

4.  Ben Jonson: (11 June 1572 – 6 August
1637)
 An English Renaissance dramatist,
 A contemporary of William Shakespeare,
 Satirical & comedy writer(The Alchemist).
 Classicist.
 Moralist & Reformer of Drama.
 1st time introduced HUMOUR.(mean peculiar
trail in character).
 Realist; believe in real & practical works.

5.  Every Man in His Humors, comedy
 Every Man out of His Humors, comedy
 The Alchemist, comedy
 Sejanus His Fall, tragedy
 A Tale of a Tub, comedy
 The Poetaster, comedy
 Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, comedy
 Volpone, comedy
 Catiline His Conspiracy, tragedy
 Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson

6.  Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
language and the world.
 English poet and playwright.
 England's national poet
 He created 38 plays,
 154 sonnets,
 2 long narrative poems,
 Several other poems

7.  Shakespeare's total work can be divided
into 4 periods.
1. Immature Period
2. Creative Period
3. Highly Proffiosnal Period
4. Down fall Period

8.  Generally This period called experimental
work. because he experimented the revision
 In this period his style was technically
immature.
 Plays written in this period are;
Comedy of error, Henry VI (part
I, II, III), Midsummer night
dream, Romeo Juliet , Two
gentlemen of Verona etc.

9.  2nd period known for great comedies.
 Now mature. Style less technically rigid, more
creative.
 Plays including in this period are; All’s well that
ends well, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night .

10.  This period belongs to his great tragedies.
 This period is characterized by the
highest development of his thoughts and
expressions.
 He expressed life from every angle.
 In this period he created a great work;
Julius Caesar, King Lear, Antony &
Cleopatra, Macbeth, Measure for measure.

11.  This period belongs to his later comedies and
dramatic romance.
 There was the decline of thoughts and
expressions.
 The Evil is now controlled and Conquered by
Good.
 In this period he did not gave any literature
alone.
 Cymbeline, Henry VIII, The winter's tale and
The Tempest are the part of last period.

12.  Tragedies:
 Romeo and Juliet
 Coriolanus
 Titus Andronicus †
 Timor of Athens †
 Julius Caesar
 Macbeth †
 Hamlet
 Troilus and Cressida ‡
 King Lear
 Othello
 Antony and Cleopatra
 Cymbeline *

13. o Twelfth Night
o The Comedy of Errors
o Love's Labor's Lost
o Measure for Measure ‡
o The Merchant of Venice
o The Taming of the Shrew
o The Tempest *
III. Histories
o Richard II
o Henry IV, Part 1
o Henry IV, Part 2
o Henry V
o Henry VI, Part 1 †
o Henry VI, Part 2
o Henry VI, Part 3

14.  Shakespeare's sonnets
 Venus and Adonis
 The Rape of Lucerne
 The Passionate Pilgrim
 The Phoenix and the Turtle
 A Lover's Complaint

15.  The period has the great variety of almost unlimited creative
force; it includes works of many kinds in both verse and
prose.
 Ranges in spirit from the loftiest Platonic idealism or the
most delightful romance to the level of very repulsive realism.
 It was mainly dominated, however, by the spirit of romance.
 It was full also of the spirit of dramatic action.
 It was in part a period of experimentation, when the proper
material and limits of literary forms were being determined.
 It continued to be largely influenced by the literature of
Italy, and to a less degree by those of France and Spain.

17.  THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN.