#Unit-1DramaNTANETEnglish
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unit-01 Drama NTA NET ENGLISH literature
Unit-1: Drama
Beginnings of the English drama history and development
From Trope to Mystery plays and Miracle to Morality Plays
(The purpose of these early dramas is to show the lives and action of saints on
the stage)
History and Background of Elizabethan theatre
Early Elizabethan playwrights
‘Christopher Marlow, Robert Green, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Lodge Shakespeare
Jacobean and Caroline playwrights
‘Ben Johnson, Chapman, Beaumont & Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker,
Massinger, Ford, Shirley, Marston’
Restoration to Modern playwrights
‘George Etherage, Wycherley, Farquhar, Vanbrug, Colley Cibber, Thomas Otway, Congreve, John
Gay’
‘Galsworthy, GB Shaw, T.S. Eliot, Sean O, Casey, J.M. Synge
Development of Post modern Drama
‘Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, Noel Coward,
And other non- British playwrights