Gothic Novels: Horace Walpole (1717-1797) Born on 24th September, 1717 in Arlington Street, Westminister, London. Was tutored at home before entered into the Eton College…
Born: 26 April, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Died: 23 April 1616. He was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church. In his epigraph…
Puppetry Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or…
British Drama: From Elizabethan to Victorian Christopher Marlowe- Doctor Faustus ** William Shakespeare- Macbeth William Shakespeare- King Lear ** William Shakespeare- Hamlet William Shakespeare- Othello…
Henry Madwall (1462-1502) John Rastell (1475 – 1536) John Bale (1495 – 1563) Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
Anglo-Norman Play/Drama The earliest play in French: Le Mystere D’ Adam in Anglo Norman Le Jeu d’Adam (The Play of Adam) Anglo Norman play written…
Robert Green (1558-1592) Thomas Nashe (1567 – 1601) John Lyly (1554-1606) Thomas Lodge (1557 – 1625) George Peele (1558-98) Thomas Kyd (1558-94) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)…
Fiction Prose Romances Frame Narrative Euphuism Hubris
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Irish author, clergyman, satirist. born in Dublin in 1667. Studied in Kikenny Grammar School and at Trinity College in Dublin, left the…
Fiction/ Novels John Bunyan (1628 – 88) English playwrite/ Preacher born in Elstow, England, in November 1628 He joined the parliamentarian army at the age…