2.7 : Glossary of Key Terms

2..0    Objectives

2..1    Introduction

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        2.1.1    Dryden as a Critic

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        2.1.2    Dryden on The Nature of Poetry

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        2.1.3    Dryden on The Function of Poetry

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2..2    An Essay on Dramatic Poesy: An Introduction

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        2..2.1    Definition of Drama

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        2..2..2   Violation of  the Three Unities

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        2.2.3    Eugenius Arguments on Superiority of Moderns over the                   Ancients

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        2.2..4    Crites’s Arguments in favour of the Ancients

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        2..2.5    Lisideius’s view in favour of Superiority of the French                     Drama over English Drama

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        2.2..6    Neander’s view in favour of Modern (English) Drama

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2...3    The Ancients versus Modern Playwrights

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2..4    Mixture of Tragedy and Comedy

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2..5    Advocacy of writing plays in Rhymed Verse

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2.6    Let’s sum up

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2.7    Glossary of Key Terms 

2.8    Reading List

        (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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