George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was born on 26th July 1856 in Dublin. He was one of the most popular and provocative playwrights and a man of great intellectual ability of the twentieth century. George Bernard Shaw was the only son and the third and youngest child of George Carr and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw.
SUMMARY OF RESTORATION PERIOD The Restoration period covers the reign of Charles II (1660–1685) and the brief reign of his younger brother James II (1685–1688). The term ‘Restoration’ is not only used to describe the event by which the monarchy…
William Caxton (c1422-1491) Before Henry VIII became king there had already been devised on the continent the most powerful instrument of all for common enlightenment–the printing press. It was to make cheap and accessible the means of nurture by which…
Author Feature: Ben Jonson Of the new doctrine of drama after Elizabeth I’s death, the great apostle was Ben Jonson. Burly, big-featured, out of sturdy common stock of the Scotch border, once a bricklayer, through solid literary achievement and force…
The play Candida is written by George Bernard Shaw. Candida is the name of the central figure of the play. The word Candida is derived from the adjective ‘candid’, which means frank and truthful The major characters of the play are Candida, Reverend James Mavor Morell, and Eugene Marchbanks. The minor characters of the play are Burgess, Miss Proserpine Garnett, and Reverend Alexander Mills (Lexy).
Grammarian's Funeral is set in 14th century Italy, during Renaissance. The Renaissance was marked by a revival of interest in Greek and Latin learning, including the languages. ‘The Grammarian’ of the poem would have been a scholar of the classical languages, instrumental in the recovery of ancient texts (remember the brown manuscripts from ‘Bishop’?).
Harvest is a play written by Manjula Padmanabhan focussing geographically on Mumbai, India. We see the character, Om, signing up as an organ donor for Ginni who is an American woman simply because there is no more jobs in India.
Chapterwise description of Harvest Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest is important in the canon of Feminist Theatre as they encapsulate what Helen Keyssar describes as, Productions of scripts characterized by the consciousness of women as women; dramaturgy in which art is inseparable…
Caedmon is the earliest English poet known to us by name. What little we know of Caedmon, the Anglo-Saxon Milton, as he is properly called, is taken from Bede's account [Ecclesiastical History, IV, xxiv.] of the Abbess Hilda and of her monastery at Whitby. Here is a free and condensed translation of Bede's story:
I. What is a literature review? A literature review is a collection, categorization, and evaluation of what other researchers have written on a specific topic. A literature review is typically included as part of a research thesis, but it can…
Sophocles (Greek: Sophokles) was an Athenian dramatist and politician who lived from 496 BC to 406 BC. He is considered the second of the three great Greek tragedians, preceded by Aeschylus and followed by Euripides. Sophocles is himself at a…
A possessive noun is a noun that shows that something belongs to a person, place, thing, or idea.
