Topic: PlaysPrepared by: Drashti Mehta

PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Course M.A.

Email id: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.comSubmitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi, Department of

English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University

Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

The Renaissance Literature

• “A story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man occupying a high position or status”.

• Shakespeare’s Conception of Tragedy

• Concept of Madness• Cross examination of Sanity

and Insanity• View of Psycho• Shock• Hamlet’s control over his

Mind

• Soliloquies which are his self communing, express a sensitive and wide awake moral conscious

• Balanced mind• Decisive Power• Quick temper• Shakespeare- a psychologist• Brutality• Ophelia’s Conduct• Feminism• “Frailty Thy name is Woman”

HamletWilliam Shakespeare

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlow• Good V/S Evil• Knowledge• Power• Power Corrupts• Man V/S God• Legend• Religious aim• Disobedience• Dilemma in Faustus• Maturity at the end• Will of Dr. Faustus• “Knowledge is Power, but

Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”.

The Anti-sentimental Comedy

• Sheridan and Goldsmith:

The School for Scandal

The Rivals

She Stoops to Conquer

Indian Writing in English

• The Purpose- T.P. Kailasm

• Original Character of Eklavya- Eklavya of Purpose

• Modern Eklavya

• Learned Archery

• The Best Archer

• Eklavya’s Guru Daxina

• Arjuna in The Purpose

• Arjuna’s education

• Rivalary

• Pride

• Arjuna at the Beginning of the play-at the end of the play

• Envy of Arjuna

• Comparison of Arjuna-Eklavya

Modernist Literature

• Waiting for Godot-Samuel Backet

• Theatre of Absurd• Theme of Waiting• Godot’s Character never

appears• Modern play• Setting• Props• Time• Nothingness

The Birthday Party-Harold Pinter

• Absurdity

• One man’s story

• Tragedy

• Black comedy

• Birthday- Ambiguity

The American Literature

• Eugene O’Neill- Mourning Becomes Electra

• Electra complex

• Oedipus complex

• Study of American society

• Relation of Mother-Daughter

• Son- Mother

• Father- Daughter

Post Colonial Literature

• A Tempest- AimeCesaire

• The Tempest- A Tempest

• Mullato- Black

• Racism

The African Literature

• The Swamp Dweller-Wole Soyinka

• Setting of Swamp

• Poverty

• Theme of an waiting