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Screening Shakespeare's " macbeth "       William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of around38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.         Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Me...

  Discuss any differences you observe between Aristotle's definition of Tragedy and Dryden's definition of Play        Life of John Dryden :               Few writers are lucky and talented enough to have a large and lasting influence in one genre, let alone multiple genres.  John Dryden , however, remains a crucial figure in the poetry, plays, and criticism that were written during the last half of the 17th century.         Dryden, who lived from 1631 to 1700, was born in a time when there was much political and religious turmoil in England. The disagreements between those who supported the traditional monarchical English form of government and those who desired a more republican form of government resulted in a series of violent events. These events include the  English Civil War , which lasted from 1642 to 1651, and the ruling of England by various republican governments from 1649 to 1660. ...

    WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S PREFACE     Question: 1   Why does Wordsworth ask "What is a poet?" rather than "Who is a poet?"   Answers  :       What's a poet ?         The poet's role, according to Wordsworth, is to be a "man speaking to men" and to connect with the common experiences and emotions shared by all humanity. He believed that the language of poetry should be accessible and relatable to people from all walks of life.       A poet is a man speaking to men , endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature , and a comparative soul , who rejoices , more than other men in thespirit of life; habitually impelled  to creative volition , passions and situations where he does not find them .               Who is a poet ?         Wordsworth’s conception of a poe...

FIRST GENERATION ROMANTIC POETS – WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE            The beginning of the British Romantic Movement is generally considered to have been marked by the collection of poems titled Lyrical Ballads, first published in 1798, most of the poems of this first edition belonged to William Wordsworth, while only four were contributed by Samuel T. Coleridge, among which, one of his best known works: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.           A second edition was published in 1800 with the famous Preface written by W. Wordsworth in which the poet outlines his poetic standpoints about Romanticism and that can be accounted for as the Manifesto of English Romanticism. In 1802 yet another edition came out with an appendix written by Wordsworth, Poetic Diction, to provide further insight regarding the main features and the radical changes that both these poets brought forth in the development of this new poetic th...

Socrates: The life and the trial         Introduction  :                     Socrates was born on C. 470 BCE , Athens ( Greece) He died on 399 BCE , Athens. He was an ancient Greek philospher.            Although Socrates himself wrote nothing .he is depicted in conversation in composition by a small circle of his admires ploto and xenophin first among them .Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society.          Socrates' life :             Socrates live through the golden age of Athens, a period marked by the rise of democracy, the flourishing of the arts and the intellectual advancements of the sophists.            Socrates was one of the most iconic figures in western philosophy , his life , teachings and methods continue to be studied continue to be studied and revered , ma...

 Comparative Analysis  Question:   Comparative Analysis of Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare as Poets Conduct a comparative analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Focus on their poetic styles, themes, contributions to English literature, and their influences on subsequent literary.  Ans :         Introduction :             Between Chaucer , Spenser and Shakespeare, the English literary landscape underwent significant transformation. This period, spanning from the late 14th century to the early 17th century, saw the transition from medieval to early modern English.          Geoffrey Chaucer (c .1340-c.1400) .      Chaucer's poetic style:                    Chaucer wrote his verse with lines that contain ten syllables and often had rhyming pairs of lines called couplets . The meter, o...