2.7 : Glossary of Key Terms
2..0 Objectives
2..1 Introduction
2.1.1 Dryden as a Critic
Self-Check Questions for 2.1.1
2.1.2 Dryden on The Nature of Poetry
Self-Check Questions for 2.1.2
2.1.3 Dryden on The Function of Poetry
Self-Check Questions for 2.1.3
2..2 An Essay on Dramatic Poesy: An Introduction
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.1
2..2..2 Violation of the Three Unities
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.2
2.2.3 Eugenius Arguments on Superiority of Moderns over the Ancients
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.3
2.2..4 Crites’s Arguments in favour of the Ancients
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.4
2..2.5 Lisideius’s view in favour of Superiority of the French Drama over English Drama
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.5
2.2..6 Neander’s view in favour of Modern (English) Drama
Self-Check Questions for 2.2.6
2...3 The Ancients versus Modern Playwrights
2..4 Mixture of Tragedy and Comedy
2..5 Advocacy of writing plays in Rhymed Verse
(A) Bibliography
(B) Further Reading
John Dryden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden
Restoration Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_literature
Marriage A-la-Mode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_%C3%A0_la_mode_(play)
Absalom and Achitophel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_and_Achitophel
Don Sebastian (1689)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DonSebastian.html
Amphitryon (1690)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphitryon_(Dryden)
Shakespeare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
The Tempest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest
All for Love (1677)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_for_Love_(play)
Antony and Cleopatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra
References of Difficult Words
libretto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto
The State of Innocence (1677)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_of_Innocence
Milton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton
Paradise Lost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
King Arthur(1691)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_(opera)
Ancient and Modern(1700)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/199755/Fables-Ancient-and-Modern
Purcell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
Ovid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid
Boccaccio
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/70836/Giovanni-Boccaccio
Geoffrey Chaucer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
MacFlecknoe(1682)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Flecknoe
Essay of Dramatic Poesy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_of_Dramatick_Poesie
Jonson's The Silent Woman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic%C5%93ne,_or_The_silent_woman
neoclassical critic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_neoclassical_economics
French neo-Classicism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism
T.S. Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
"liberal"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal
poesy
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poesy?q=poesy
drama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama
R.A.Scott – JAMES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolfe_Arnold_Scott-James
sub-plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subplot
observance
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/observance
Dr. Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Imitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation
tragi-comedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragicomedy
suspension of disbelief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief
rhyme and verse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme
deus ex machina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
French tragedies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy
verisimilitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude
Sejanus and Catiline
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3716954?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100830255121
The King and No King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_King_and_No_King
The Scornful Lady
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scornful_Lady
EUNUCH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
Adelphi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi
Blank Verse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_verse
Aurangzebe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb
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