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BY: CHELDY S.

ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
LITERARY CRITICISM
LITERATURE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Literature has only three specific


and main branches and that is
poetry, prose and drama. Even
though this are just three but it is
subdivided in to many categories
and more sub categories that we
cannot count immediately.
GENRES OF LITERATURE POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• POETRY: Verbal utterances that are composed according


to metrical schemes.
• NON-FICTION: Writing that is about real life, rather than
imaginary people and events.
• DRAMA: Work that is meant to be performed on
stage (theater) by actors in the form of a play.
• FICTION: Writing that comes from the
author’s imagination and is usually written in narrative
form.
POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• It is imaginative awareness of
an expressed through
experience sound, and rhythmic
meaning, so as to evoke an
language
emotional response.
• Predominantly, sentences
are metaphorical.
POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Has been known to employ meter


and rhyme, but this is by no means
necessary.
• An ancient form that has gone
through numerous and drastic
reinvention over time.
3 TYPES OF POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

1. NARRATIVE
2. DRAMATIC
3. LYRICAL
• It is not always possible to make distinction
between them.
• For example, an epic poem can contain lyrical
passages, or lyrical poem can contain
narrative parts.
NARRATIVE POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls,


and lays.
• Some narrative poetry takes the form of a novel
in verse.
• Example of this is the ring and the book by
Robert browning.
• Inthe terms of narrative poetry, a romance is
a
narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry (courage).
DRAMATIC POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Is any play or scene in which the characters use poetry,


whether blank or metrical, in their dialogues or
monologues.
• The works of Shakespeare are probably some of the
most easily recognizable examples of dramatic poetry,
which is any dramatic work written in lines of verse.
DRAMATIC POETRY EXAMPLES
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Include Robert Browning's “MY LAST DUCHESS,”


Summary :is narrated by the duke of Ferrari to an
envoy (representative) of another nobleman, whose
daughter the duke is soon to marry. These details
are revealed throughout the poem, but
understanding them from the opening helps to
illustrate the irony that browning employs.
LYRICAL POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Lyric poems are called so because they


were originally meant to be to set to
music, accompanied by a musical
instrument called the lyre.
• originated in the Ancient Greece.
LYRICAL POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• It revived itself during the Renaissance


period with the help of brilliant writers like
Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John
Milton; and in the Romantic era with the
help of Robert Burns, William Blake,
William Wordsworth, John Keats, Shelley,
Victor Hugo, etc.
LYRICAL POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Written from the first person's point of


view.
• This form of poetry does not tell a story
portraying characters or actions.
• This form usually revolves around the
emotions, perceptions, and state of mind
of the poet.
LYRICAL POETRY EXAMPLE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

Dying by Emily Dickinson I willed my keepsakes, signed


away
I heard a fly buzz when I died; What portion of me I
The stillness round my form Could make assignable,-and
Was like the stillness in the air then
Between the heaves of storm. There interposed a fly,

The eyes beside had wrung With blue, uncertain,


them dry, stumbling buzz,
And breaths were gathering Between the light and me;
sure And then the windows failed,
For that last onset, when the and then
king I could not see to see.
Be witnessed in his power.
LYRICAL POETRY EXAMPLE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• EXPLANATION: observe the rhyme


scheme of the poem, it is ABCB and uses
and iambic meter.
• It's broken up into quatrains.
• The poem does not speak of a
particular character, or tell a story.
LYRICAL POETRY EXAMPLE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• It speaks of an observation she makes just when


she is about to die.
• Her detachment from all the worldly belongings
including the people that were present around
her deathbed is evident in the poem.
• The poem is hypothetical and expresses her
intense emotions about death as she lays dying.
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Lyric poetry includes


subcategories like ode, sonnet,
occasional poetry, dramatic
monologue, and elegy.
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
ODE BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• An ode is a long serious poem, mostly about


nature, object of attraction, or aimed at adoring
someone or something.
• Ode to a nightingale or ode on a Grecian Urn by
John Keats, ode on intimations of immortality by
William Wordsworth are a few examples of
famous odes.
EXAMPLE OF AN ODE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness O, f o r a dr aught o f vintage! t hat hath


pains been
My sense, as though of hemlock I had Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved
drunk, earth,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the Tasting of Flora and the country green,
drains Dance, and Provençal song, and
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunburnt mirth!
sunk: O for a beaker full of the warm South,
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, Full o f the true, the blus hful

But
Thatbeing
thou,too happy in thine
light-winged Dryadhappiness,
of the With beaded bubbles winking at the
Hippocrene,
trees brim,
In some melodious plot And purple-stained mouth;
Of beechen green, and shadows That I might drink, and leave the
EXPLANATION ODE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• This ode has a ABABCDECDE rhyme scheme and follows


an iambic pentameter.
• Though it may seem that the poem speaks of a
nightingale, it is in fact symbolic of the desire of
anonymity.
• It also celebrates her (nightingale's) freedom from the
world, and her enchanting voice, and celebrates every
aspect of being a bird in every way.
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
SONNET
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Sonnets are lyric poems comprising 14 lines


falling into 3 quatrains followed by a
couplet.
• Sonnet 18by Shakespeare, death be
proud by John Donne, sonnet not
Elizabeth browning are a few of the 43 by
famous
sonnets.
EXAMPLE OF A SONNET
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"How do I love thee? Let me count the


ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of
sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from
Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's
faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
EXPLANATION SONNET 43
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• 'Sonnet 43', by Elizabeth Barrett browning is a simple


sonnet proclaiming her undying love for her husband-
to-be.
• The poem expresses her emotions and feelings towards
him.
• Thus it has immense imagery without a story
or characters and is written in first person.
• She uses the ABBAABBACDCDCD rhyme scheme with
an iambic pentameter.
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Dramatic monologues are also known as a persona poem.


This type of poetry is highly narrative and imagined by the
person, which reveals the aspects of his character and
nature while describing a situation or event. They are often
lengthy, famous, and fall under lyric poetry.
• The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot, my last
duchess by Browning are some notable dramatic
monologues.
EXAMPLE OF A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
MY LAST DUCHESS BY ROBERT
BROWNING BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
SUMMARY OF THE POEM
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• This poem is modeled after Alfonso II, a Spanish nobleman, and


his wife who mysteriously died.
• In this poem, the Duke holds a picture of his deceased wife
behind a thick curtain
• He looks upon her beautiful picture and recounts the life
they shared
• He describes his wife as gentle, humble, and innocent
• But instead of seeing her beauty, he sees her imperfections
• After the wife's death the Duke search for a new life
EXPLANATION OF A DRAMATIC
MONOLOGUE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The psyche of the duke of Ferrara is revealed in this poem as he


speaks of his deceased wife and of the prospective new ones to come.
The duke narrates how his former wife was easily pleased and would
react the same way with one and all, whether they were cherries
brought to her by the peasant or getting married to the duke himself.
And it is hinted that in a jealous rage he gave commands which
could mean he commanded for her untimely demise. At the end of
the poem he points out to a bronze statue of Neptune taming a
seahorse - which depicts his need to keep things in control.
• This too has an iambic pentameter and uses Enjambed rhyming
couplets.
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
OCCASIONAL POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• An occasional poetry is written on a specific


occasion. This form of poetry falls under lyric
poetry as it is meant for a performance,
accompanied by instruments.
• Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser, Lycidas by
Milton are two of the most renowned
occasional lyric poetry.
EXAMPLE OF AN OCCASIONAL POETRY
BY: ALFRED TENNYSON
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
EXPLANATION OF AN OCCASIONAL
POETRY BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• This poem commemorates a battle in the Crimean war.


The poet directly speaks of this battle and makes the
listener or reader feel like they are a part of it. He
describes the scene of war between the British and the
Russian empire in the Crimean war. The British soldiers
are referred to as light brigade who are going head on
into their impending doom. The composition makes this
poem an epitome of tragic heroism.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON’S
“THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIDGE”
USES OF LANGUAGE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
ELEGY BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• During the classic literature era, an elegy used to be a simple


poem written in an elegiac meter meaning alternating lines
consisted of dactylic hexameter and pentameter. However
post the 16th century, this form of lyric poem laments the
death of someone. A famous form of elegy is the pastoral elegy
which speaks of the simple life of the shepherd and his
observations.
• Milton's Lycidas, Matthew Arnold's thyrsi's, Shelley's Adonai's,
and in memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden are just a few
examples of famous elegies.
EXAMPLE OF AN ELEGY
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN
By: Walt Whitman
BY: CHELDY S.
ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,
LPT
EXPLANATION OF AN ELEGY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• At first the poet speaks of a victorious return of a ship. He


narrates that the joy of the people on land and slowly
reveals the death of the captain. This is a direct hint to the
sad demise of Abraham Lincoln after the civil war.
However, in reality he mourns the death of Abraham
Lincoln. He speaks of the civil war in this poem.
• As for the technical part of the poetry Whitman has used
AABBCDED rhyme scheme and an iambic pentameter.
METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• All types of lyric poetry fall under a


meter.
• It is an underlying structure beneath
the words which helps you emphasize
or stress on certain words of the poem.
IAMBIC METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Iambic pentameter is a standard line


with five iambic feet in a row. DUM
da or da DUM is one iambic foot.
• EXPLANATION: dum da dum da dum
da dum da dum da
• EXAMPLE: if music be the food of
love, play on
TROCHAIC TETRAMETER
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Trochaic tetrameter is opposite of


iambic pentameter and has four
trochees.
• EXPLANATION: DUM da DUM de
DUM da DUM de
PYRRHIC METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Pyrrhic is also known as a dibrach,


which consists of two unaccented, and
has short syllables.
• EXAMPLE: when the blood creeps and
the nerves prick.
• EXPLANATION: da dum
ANAPESTIC METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Anapestic is a quantitative meters which is made up


of two short syllables followed by a long one. The
accentual stress meters consists of two unstressed
syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
• EXAMPLE: I must finish my journey alone
• EXPLANATION: da da DUM
DACTYLIC METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Dactylic is reverse of anapestic metrical foot


of three syllables, one being stressed
followed by two unstressed.
• EXAMPLE: half a league, half a league, half
a league, onward
• EXPLANATION: DUM da da DUM da da
SPONDEE METERS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Spondee is a metrical foot


which consists of two accented
syllables.
• man,
Words like:childhood,
shortcake, drop-dead,
black dead
hole,
breakdown, love-song.
• EXPLANATION: da
DUM
CLASSIFICATION OF RHYTHMIC METRE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
POEM’S METRICAL DESCRIPTION
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
RHYME AND METER
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
POETRY DEFINED BY FAMOUS POETS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

“The spontaneous overflow


of powerful feelings.”
POETRY DEFINED BY FAMOUS POETS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• DYLAN THOMAS
“Poetry is what makes me laugh or
cry or yawn, what makes my
twinkle, what makes me
toenails
want to do this or that or nothing.”
POETRY DEFINED BY FAMOUS POETS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• EMILY DICKINSON
“if I read a book and it makes
my body so cold no fire ever
can warm me, I know that is
poetry.”
POETRY
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE (600 -1100 A.D)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE (600 -


1100 A.D.) Also known as Anglo-Saxon –
the earliest form of English.
• OLD ENGLISH POEMS are usually long
narrative epics giving accounts of great
deeds of warriors and heroes.
POETRY
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE (600 -1100 A.D)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• BEOWULF: Greatest and first old


English poem (epic) written in the
7th century by an unknown author.
• LAWS AND ANGLO-SAXON
CHRONICLE: Oldest Anglo-Saxon
prose.
POETRY
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (1100 - 1500)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• MIDDLE ENGLISH: Language used


from 1100 1500 A.D.
• THE CANTERBURY
TALES (17,000 lines): poem written by
geoffrey chaucer (father of english
poetry) which can be classified as
religious.
POETRY
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (1100 - 1500)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• TROILUS AND
CRYSEYDE:
Chaucer’s other important poem.
• Unknown author: SIR
GWAIN AND THE
GREEN KNIGHT (1360)
PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Is a literature that is written in the ordinary


language without metrical structure, as
distinguished from poetry or verse.
• This definition of prose is an example of
prose writing, as is most human
conversation, textbooks, lectures,
short stories, fairy tales, newspaper articles,
novels,
and essays.
TYPES OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

1. NONFICTIONAL PROSE - It includes


biographies, essays, letters,
journals, memoirs, biographies,
autobiographies,
essays, diaries and journals, magazines,
newspapers, subject text books such as in
geography, history and civic education
TYPES OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

2.FICTIONAL PROSE - it includes novels,


novellas, short stories, plays, poems, oral
literature, and songs.
3. HEROIC PROSE – It includes legends, tales.
4.POETRY PROSE – Includes Poetry written in
prose instead of using verse but maintaining poetic
qualities.
PROSE FICTION
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

 Extended prose fiction is the latest of


the
literary forms to develop.
 We have romances from classical Greek times
that are as long as short novels; but they are
really tales of adventure—vastly
extended anecdotes.
FICTIONAL PLAY EXAMPLE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• THE COMEDY ERRORS


OF After Summary. separated
both inbeing
twins from their and his
a shipwreck, Antipholus
slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them.
The other set of twins lives in Ephesus,
and the new arrivals cause a series of
incidents of mistaken identity.
FICTIONAL PLAY
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

INTRODUCTION:
The Comedy of Errors one of Shakespeare's
is earliest plays.
It is his shortest and of his most farcical
one
comedies, with a major part of the humor coming
from slapstick and mistaken identity in addition to
puns and word plat.
The play was not published until it appeared in the
First Folio in 1623.
FICTIONAL PLAY
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

CONFLICT:
• Antipholus is in Ephesus seeking his lost family. He is
conflicted about his lost family. Not only he left his father, but
he also seems unable to locate his brother and mother. He is
convinced that in this process of searching for them, he lost
himself too. S. Antipholus is further confused by all people who
seem to know him, though he doesn’t know them. This
increases his feeling that he doesn’t know himself, and
obscures the obvious facts that his long-lost twin is running
around the same city.
FICTIONAL PLAY
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

PLOT STRUCTURE:
Egeon is sentenced to death in Ephesus.
He is seeking his two lost sons.
He is being a sad sack, and seems to have a life story so
miserable that he’d rather die from it than deal with it.
The story of his separated family sets the stage for
the
comic resolution.
Egeon’s plight seems to invite the conclusion of all
six people being happily reunited.
FICTIONAL PLAY
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL:


Though “The Comedy of Errors” takes place in a single
location, the characters come from all corners of the
Earth.
Though they all happen to currently be in one spot,
they do a fantastic job of relating their worldliness by
using geography as a motif in the play.
Geography symbolizes not only where you are,
but where you’ve been and where you intend to go.
FICTIONAL PLAY
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

SUSPENSE:
Antipholus of Syracus and Dromio of Syracuse escape into
priory after almost getting into a duel with the Merchant;
the Abbess refuses to release S. Antipolus to Adriana’s
care.

CONCLUSION:
Antipholus of Ephesus is comminted to his wife; S.
Antipholus again declareshis love for Luciana; the whole
family is reunited; Egion doest get beheaded.
DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The basic elements of prose are: character,


setting, plot, point of view, and mood.
1. CHARACTER refers to: biographical
information; personality traits; social roles, and
psychological factors such as aspirations,
fears, and personal values.
DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

2. SETTING INCLUDES:
Physical environment,
social situation, time
period, and location.
DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

3. PLOT is what happens: characters'


actions and important events.
• Plot progresses through the three
stages of rising action, climax, and
resolution.
• Point of view is a technical term that
identifies the narrator's position
relative to the story being told.
DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PROSE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

4. MOOD --Means the


dominant feelings
and emotions
evoked.
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• It is mainly religious
• EXAMPLE: The Ancren
Riwle (13th century) about
the proper conduct of
Women
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
THE ANCREN RIWLE (13th century)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• FIRST ENGLISH PLAYS (DRAMA):


1. MIRACLE/MYSTERY PLAYS: Stories from the
bible
2. MORALITY PLAYS: Characters are not people, but
personified as virtues (truth, honor, greed,
revenge).
3. INTERLUDE: A funny play by two or three actors.
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
FIRST ENGLISH DRAMA EXAMPLE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM, the fair


queen of Jewry, a closet drama written by
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary (1585–1639) and
first published in 1613, was the first
original play in English known to
been written by a woman. have
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
FIRST ENGLISH PLAYS IN THE WORLD
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• AESCHYLUS' historical tragedy the


Persians is the oldest surviving drama,
although when it won first prize at the
city Dionysia competition in 472 BC, he
had been writing plays for more than
25 years.
PROSE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE(100-1500)
FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The first English tragedy, GORBODUC (1561), by Thomas


Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and
revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca. (As it happens,
Gorboduc does follow the form as well as the subject matter of
Seneca tragedy: but only a very few other English plays--e.g.
THE MISFORTUNES OF ARTHUR—followed its lead in this.)
Senecan influence is also evident in Thomas Kyd's THE
SPANISH TRAGEDY, and in Shakespeare's TITUS
ANDRONICUS and HAMLET.
FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
GORBODUC (1561) -SUMMARY
By: Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY –SUMMARY
By: Thomas Kyd
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The Spanish tragedy begins with the ghost of


Andrea, a Spanish nobleman, and the personified
abstraction of revenge. Andrea explains that he
was killed in battle against the Portuguese. This
deprived him of his secret love, bel-imperia, and
his ghost has now emerged from the underworld
to seek revenge.
FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
TITUS ANDRONICUS-SUMMARY
By: William Shakespeare
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• It is a violent story about a tragic hero, Titus,


whose life is destroyed because of his own
actions. When Titus Andronicus, the most
honored Roman General, returns from a ten-
year war, he has captured Tamora, queen of the
goths, and her three son sand her lover, Aaron
the Moor, as captives. Her eldest son is
sacrificed by Titus; she vows revenge.
FIRST ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
HAMLET-SUMMARY
By: William Shakespeare
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The ghost of the king of Denmark tells his son hamlet to


avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's
uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and
death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life,
also devises plots to kill hamlet.
• At end of Hamlet, he finally gets his revenge on Claudius
and Fortinbras is crowned the new King. After the
intense events that happen after Gertrude dies, one after
another each character meets their death.
DRAMATIC POETRY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Any play or scene in which the characters use


poetry, whether blank or metrical, in their dialogues or
monologues.
• The works of Shakespeare are probably some of
the most easily recognizable examples of
dramatic poetry, which is any dramatic work
written in lines of verse.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
HALLMARKS
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Dramatic poetry is narrative -- it tells a story -spoken


from the point of view of a persona, a speaker who is a
character rather than the author.
• Often, dramatic poetry has multiple characters.
• They often speak mostly in rhymed lines, in blank verse
or in a combination of the two.
• BLANK VERSE refers to unrhymed lines of 10
syllables long with every other syllable stressed.
• Shakespeare wrote his plays in blank verse.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• The monologue may have multiple characters but only


one speaker.
• That speaker may or may not be reliable.
• The reader has to keep in mind that the speaker is
telling a story from his point of view only.
• Were another character to tell the story, the reader
would get another point of view.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• For EXAMPLE, one character, the duke, tells the


story in Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess.“
• He believes that the duchess gave herself freely
to other men, but without the point of view of
another more objective speaker, you can't really
know whether that is true.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
COMEDY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Some dramatic verse is comedy.


• It may be comedy in the humorous sense that
readers think of today, or it may be comedy in
the classical sense, in that it ends happily in
spite of the sometimes very serious trouble
that unfolds throughout the story.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
COMEDY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Shakespeare's "the tempest" is a


comedy, even though it's not funny,
because it ends happily.
• "As you like it," another of
Shakespeare's comedies, has a
happy ending, and it is also funny.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
TRAGEDY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Atragedy is any story that


ends
unhappily.
• The verse dramas “HAMLET," "Romeo and
Juliet" and CRUCIBLE"
“THE examples of are
tragedies.
• Verse dramas take place in the
always present.
ENGLISH TRAGEDY PLAY
THE CRUCIBLE -SUMMARY
By: William Shakespeare
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• Takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 during the


Salem witch trials. The play is a fictionalized version of the
trials and tells the story of a group of young Salem women
who falsely accuse other villagers of witchcraft.
• Crucible ends with John Proctor marching off to a martyr's
death. By refusing to lie and confess to witchcraft, he
sacrifices his life in the name of truth. At the end of the
play, Proctor has in some way regained his goodness.
KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY
TRAGEDY
BY: CHELDY S. ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT

• For EXAMPLE, you read “MY LAST


DUCHESS" as if you were standing
there listening to the duke speak.
• Likewise, you watch the events of a
Shakespearian tragedy unfold as if
they were happening right now.
THANK YOU FOR READING!

CHELDHAYE

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